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Opening Conversation: Behind the Scenes of Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraiture

Opening Conversation: Behind the Scenes of Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraiture
Conversations
January
17
6 PM-7:30 PM

Event Details

Date & Time:

Wed January 17, 2018
6 PM-7:30 PM

Location:

Fisk Hall Auditorium
1845 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Open to the public

Details:

Join the Block Museum for a behind-the-scenes look at the exhibition Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt with archaeologists, art historians, scientists and scholars of the ancient world. Learn more from their insights into the Roman past including their discovery of what lies beneath the wrappings of a mummy featured in the exhibition. With curators Essi Rönkkö, Taco Terpstra, and Marc Walton in conversation with Emily Teeter, Egyptologist, Oriental Institute.

Paint the Eyes Softer is organized by Northwestern’s Block Museum in collaboration with the University’s McCormick School of Engineering, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, and School of Communications.

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu