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Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea

Door Elizabeth S. Bolman e.a.

Categorie
Schilderkunst
Boeknummer
#392125-KH26
Titel
Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea
Auteur
Bolman, Elizabeth S. & Patrick Godeau
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0300092245
ISBN13
9780300092240
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original orange cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
The 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... (Lees verder) be dated back to the sixth or seventh century.
Pagina's
307
Conditie
Goed — Several light scratches and dents to dust jacket.
Prijs
€ 85,00

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