L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge Pour faire taire les idées

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The work of this artist of Polish origin

Bernard Plossu

L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge Pour faire taire les idéesThe Fayum portraits are this silent population embodied by faces that excavations have gradually brought out of the tombs. Produced in Roman Egypt in the first three centuries AD, and belonging to both a Greek mimetic tradition and a specifically Egyptian ritual accompaniment, they were not intended to be seen. But since they were found and identified, they have never ceased to fascinate. Scattered across the world, their enigma remains intact, we are