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The Red Monastery church : beauty and asceticism in upper Egypt / edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dayr al-Anbā Bishāy (Sūhāj, Egypt).
- Coptic art.
- Art, Byzantine.
- Christian antiquities.
- Religious architecture.
- Architecture, Byzantine.
- Monasteries.
- History.
- Coptic mural painting and decoration.
- Coptic monasteries.
- Conservation and restoration.
- Coptic church buildings.
- Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Egypt.
- Coptic church buildings--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Coptic monasteries--Egypt--Sūhāj--History.
- Coptic monasteries--Conservation and restoration--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Coptic mural painting and decoration--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Monasteries--Egypt--Sūhāj--History.
- Architecture, Byzantine--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Religious architecture--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Christian antiquities--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Art, Byzantine--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Coptic art--Egypt--Sūhāj.
- Sūhāj (Egypt)--Antiquities.
- Sūhāj (Egypt).
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 390 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans ; 32 cm
- Other Title:
- Beauty and asceticism in upper Egypt
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press in association with American Research Center in Egypt, [2016]
- Contents:
- Foreword / Gerry D. Scott III
- Preface / Michael Jones
- Prologue : the renaissance of the Red Monastery / Maximous El-Antony
- Introduction / Elizabeth S. Bolman
- The Red Monastery in early Byzantine Egypt / Andrew Crislip
- Pshoi and the early history of the Red Monastery / Stephen Emmel and Bentley Layton
- "The possessions of our poverty" : beauty, wealth, and asceticism in the Shenoutean federation / Elizabeth S. Bolman
- Liturgy and ritual practice in the Shenoutean federation / Ugo Zanetti and Stephen J. Davis
- The type of the triconch basilica / Dale Kinney
- Architectural survey / Nicholas Warner
- Architectural sculpture / Dale Kinney
- Artistic working practice and the second-phase ornamental program / William Lyster
- A staggering spectacle : early Byzantine aesthetics in the triconch / Elizabeth S. Bolman
- The iconography of salvation / Elizabeth S. Bolman
- Figural styles, Egypt, and the early Byzantine world / Elizabeth S. Bolman
- Ascetic ancestors, identity and genealogy / Elizabeth S. Bolman and Agnieszka Szymańska
- Textual aesthetics : dipinti and the early Byzantine epigraphic habit / Paul C. Dilley
- Preparation of the eucharist : paintings in the side chambers / Elizabeth S. Bolman
- An eclipsed history : toward a framework for the medieval history of the Red Monastery / Mark N. Swanson
- A medieval flourishing at the White Monastery Federation : material culture / Elizabeth S. Bolman
- Inscribed identities : prosopography of the Red and White Monasteries in the early Byzantine and medieval periods / Paul C. Dilley
- "A strange jumble of Roman detail" : western explorers and antiquarians at the Red Monastery, 1673-1926 / Nicholas Warner and Cédric Meurice
- The Comité : conserving the Red Monastery Church in the early twentieth century / Nicholas Warner and Cédric Meurice
- Wall painting conservation at the Red Monastery church / Luigi De Cesaris, Alberto Sucato, and Emiliano Ricchi
- Conclusion / Elizabeth S. Bolman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300212305
- 9780300212303
- OCLC:
- 926820761
- Publisher Number:
- 9780300212303
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