Bahrain-based Egyptian artist Ahmed Emam is set to unveil his unique interpretation of the famed Fayoum Portraits in a solo exhibition to be inaugurated today.
Fayoum Portraits or ‘mummy portraits’ are a type of naturalistic artwork – typically of mummies from Roman Egypt – brought alive on wooden boards. The ancient funerary wonders are said to be more than 1,800 years old and around 1,000 Fayoum paintings have been excavated so far.
