Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea
Editorial Reviews Book Description An ancient church in the Coptic Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea contains a unique cycle of thirteenth-century wall paintings. They constitute by far the most complete and best-preserved iconographic program of Christian paintings to come from medieval Egypt. Ignored for centuries because they were covered with soot and overpainting, these compelling images have recently undergone conservation. This beautiful book reproduces the cleaned paintings for the first time. It also describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic (Egyptian Christian), Byzantine, and Arab styles and motifs as well as the religious culture to which they belong. In 1996, funded by the United States Agency for International Development and at the request of the Monastery of St. Antony, the Antiquities Development Project of the American Research Center in Egypt began the conservation of the paintings in the church. The paintings revealed by the conservators are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with Byzantine and Islamic art of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some newly discovered paintings can even be dated back to the sixth or seventh century. The authors of this book-who include art historians, conservators, historians, an archaeologist, and an anthropologist-discuss the significance of these revelations and place the church and the paintings within the artistic and historical traditions of both Coptic Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean region in the Middle Ages. From the Publisher Published in association with American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea
Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea,Elizabeth S. Bolman,Yale University Press,0300092245,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Christian saints in art,Church of St. Anthony (Egypt),Coptic mural painting and deco,Coptic mural painting and decoration,Egypt,General,History - Medieval,Mural painting and decoration,,Mural painting and decoration, Medieval,Painting In Specific Media,Red Sea Region,Religion And Art,Subjects & Themes - Religious,Art / Religious
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