Step into a gallery where time dissolves. Our virtual exhibition “Faces of Forever: The Fayum Portraits” invites you to meet real people who lived along the Nile nearly 2,000 years ago. Painted on thin wooden panels and placed over mummies, these vivid likenesses were meant to guide their owners into the afterlife—yet they gaze back at us with a disarming, modern immediacy. What to expect A walk through Roman-era Egypt Glide between torch-lit colonnades, desert breezeways, and reconstructed Fayum workshops while spatial audio mixes market chatter with soft brushstrokes. Ultra-high-resolution portraits Zoom to pigment-grain level, rotate each panel in 3-D, and reveal the beeswax encaustic layers that give every face its glassy glow. Whether you’re an art lover, history buff, or VR newcomer, “Faces of Forever” turns museum glass into a living conversation with the ancient past—no Egyptology degree required.
Step into a gallery where time dissolves. Our virtual exhibition “Faces of Forever: The Fayum Portraits” invites you to meet real people who lived along the Nile nearly 2,000 years ago. Painted on thin wooden panels and placed over mummies, these vivid likenesses were meant to guide their owners into the afterlife—yet they gaze back at us with a disarming, modern immediacy. What to expect A walk through Roman-era Egypt Glide between torch-lit colonnades, desert breezeways, and reconstructed Fayum workshops while spatial audio mixes market chatter with soft brushstrokes. Ultra-high-resolution portraits Zoom to pigment-grain level, rotate each panel in 3-D, and reveal the beeswax encaustic layers that give every face its glassy glow. Whether you’re an art lover, history buff, or VR newcomer, “Faces of Forever” turns museum glass into a living conversation with the ancient past—no Egyptology degree required.
Curator
Vasily Gnuchev
Visibility
Public
Encaustic on limewood with gold leaf
Encaustic on wood
Encaustic on limewood with gold leaf
Encaustic on limewood
Encaustic on limewood
Encaustic on limewood
Encaustic on limewood
Human remains wrapped with linen and mummification material; panel portrait: encaustic on limewood
Linen, tempera paint
Tempera on sycomore wood
Linen, paint (tempera)
Encaustic on wood with gold leaf
