L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge In the gallery of portraits

In the gallery of portraits brought together in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

swimming would seem to be one of the major ways of confronting the universe itself

brandissant fièrement leurs étendards

Pour faire taire les idées reçues

Bernard Plossu

L'apostrophe muette, essai sur les portraits du Fayoum. Moyen-âge In the gallery of portraitsThe Fayum portraits are this silent population embodied by faces that excavations have gradually brought out of the tombs. Produced in Roman Egypt in the first three centuries AD, and belonging to both a Greek mimetic tradition and a specifically Egyptian ritual accompaniment, they were not intended to be seen. But since they were found and identified, they have never ceased to fascinate. Scattered across the world, their enigma remains intact, we are