Over the following centuries, it traveled to Rome and Egypt and was later ... The so-called Fayum portraits are among the most famous encaustic paintings. Many were found at the Roman-Egyptian ...

The origins of encaustic painting can be traced back to ancient Greece around the 5th century BCE. The word 'encaustic' ...

Excavating a vast cemetery from the first and second centuries A.D., when imperial Rome ruled Egypt, he found scores of exquisite portraits executed on wood panels by anonymous artists ...

ROME, Nov 22 (Reuters) - A portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio held in a private collection since it was discovered more than 60 years ago is being shown to the public for the first time in a ...