thin brown wash; blue-grey forearm guards

Egypt
14th Century
Source: Richardson, Kristina L. (2012). Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies. Edinburgh University Press.
Recipe Details

Evidence

"The bodies are all painted with the same thin brown wash. Aside from one warrior who sports blue-grey forearm guards and a turban, and another man wearing part of a turban, the bodies are nude."

Remarks

The pigment application is described as a 'wash of colour' (p. 12). The use of a single uniform brown wash for all bodies suggests the artist's disinterest in individual portraiture, opting instead for a generic representation of an anonymous group (p. 12).

Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
visual analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
pigment
ColorBrown
RegionEgypt
Approx. Year1350
Source Information
TitleDifference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies
AuthorRichardson, Kristina L.
Collectionprobably Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.360
Language
N/A
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