This collegial outreach has been a very special result of the projectвЂ™s cooperative nature and success. This collective data broadens the customary focused studies into a larger corpus of information, facilitating the identification of trends, enabling comparisons, and shedding new light on artistic practice, materials, and techniques.В Additionally, as an outcome of the projectвЂ™s expansion, a community has developed in which participants are able to reach out to other institutions and colleagues, exchange information, gain inspiration, and, in several instances, provide guidance and support to those who may not have the same resources or expertise. Partner institutions participate by examining, analyzing, and researching the history, materials, methods, and technology of the artworks within their collections and contributing the results to a database that is used as a platform for study, investigation, and comparison. The APPEAR project was established in 2013 with seven seed institutions at the time of this publication the project has flourished, expanding to forty-seven collaborating museums from the United States and Europe. The ownership history of an artifact., materials, methods, technical imaging, and analysis of ancient painted artifacts. The speakers-representing five countries and nineteen museums, with backgrounds in conservation, science, Egyptology, classics, and art history-presented new research on the history, provenance Citation: Provenance. Over the two-day conference, twelve papers, six lightning talks / posters, and a keynote lecture addressed the topics that have developed through or contributed to the APPEAR project. The Getty-organized event brought together more than one hundred attendees to hear presentations by twenty-one project participants on the current and ongoing technical research of ancient painting from Roman Egypt. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, on May 17 it was there that the results stemming from the APPEAR project were first shared. The papers in this publication are the result of a conference held at the J. The APPEAR initiative was developed to create a platform for expanding our understanding of the materials and technology used to produce works of art, especially mummy portraits, painted in the first through third centuries AD during the Roman occupation of Egypt. painting from Roman Egypt, known as APPEAR: Ancient Panel Painting, Examination, Analysis and Research. The shape of the upper portion of mummy portrait panels may indicate the cemetery in which the mummy was buried: stepped panels are associated with AntinoГ¶polis, round-topped panels with Hawara, and angled panels with er-Rubayat. Painting support made from various woods, including lime, sycomore fig, and cedar of Lebanon, among others. These proceedings mark the end of the first four years of an international collaboration on the study of funerary panel Citation: Panel.

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