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  2. Encaustic painting - Wikipedia

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    A 6th-century encaustic icon from Saint Catherine's Monastery, Egypt. Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added. The molten mix is applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are sometimes used.

  3. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

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    In some cases the primed layer reveals a preparatory drawing. Two painting techniques were employed: encaustic (wax) painting and animal glue tempera. The encaustic images are striking because of the contrast between vivid and rich colours, and comparatively large brush-strokes, producing an "Impressionistic" effect.

  4. Christ Pantocrator (Sinai) - Wikipedia

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    The original encaustic surface has continually been preserved in excellent condition overall. [14] As with many of the early icons from Sinai, the Christ Pantocrator was created by using the technique, known as encaustic—a medium using hot wax paint—that was rarely used in the Byzantine world after the iconoclastic controversies of the ...

  5. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    The art of ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years, traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages.

  6. Janise Yntema - Wikipedia

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    Janise Yntema. Janise Yntema (born March 29, 1962) is an American painter working in the ancient wax encaustic technique. Yntema was born in New Jersey and attended Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League of New York. She has had solo exhibitions in New York and throughout the United States as well as London, Amsterdam and Brussels.

  7. Jasper Johns - Wikipedia

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    Jasper Johns. Detail of Flag 1954–55, Museum of Modern Art, New York. This image illustrates Johns's early technique of painting with encaustic over a collage made from found materials such as newspaper. Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Considered a central figure in the development ...

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