Seeing the "large and simple" features of portraits from this country in the Louvre inspired Paula Modersohn-Becker's pioneering series of expressionistic self-portraits.
Seeing the "large and simple" features of portraits from this country in the Louvre inspired Paula Modersohn-Becker's pioneering series of expressionistic self-portraits. In a painting from this country, a cat claws one bird and gnaws another, while a disproportionately small girl picks flowers and holds the leg of her father, who holds three birds he has caught while hunting. A preparatory sketch for a portrait of a ruler of this country illustrates the method of using a grid to paint humans according to the "Canon of Proportions." Formulaic renditions of jewelry, hairstyles, and facial hair, as well as oversized, staring eyes, characterize naturalistic panel portraits done in (*) encaustic in this country. Hundreds of those Hellenistic portraits have been found in coffins in this country's Faiyum Basin. For 10 points, name this modern-day country whose dry climate has allowed the survival of numerous funerary paintings, such as frescoes in the tomb of the the scribe Nebamun.
Seeing the "large and simple" features of portraits from this country in the Louvre inspired Paula Modersohn-Becker's pioneering series of expressionistic self-portraits.
Egypt