Compare and contrast the styles of Mummy Wrapping of a Young Boy and inner Coffin of Tutankhamun. What does the medium suggest about status?

What will be an ideal response?


Essay responses should include these points:
Tut's inner coffin was made of gold and precious stones.
Tut's coffin shows the traditional symbols of the pharaoh.
Mummy Wrapping of a Young Boy shows the influence of Roman portraiture.
The mummy is a more realistic image in encaustic.
Tut's coffin is idealized.
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