Overview

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 12th and 13th centuries. Some paintings can even be dated back to the 6th or 7th century. The contributors to 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.

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Author:   Elizabeth S. Bolman ,  Patrick Godeau
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 26.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 31.00cm
Weight:   2.300kg
ISBN:  

9780300092240

ISBN 10:   0300092245
Pages:   342
Publication Date:   31 December 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Bolman makes the arcane accessible and the spiritual meaningful. This is how art history, usually seen as an elitist activity, should be written up in a democratic society. Anthony Cutler, Penn State University Art

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Elizabeth S. Bolman is assistant professor of medieval art history at Temple University. The other contributors are Luigi De Cesaris, Mark Easton, Gawdat Gabra, Patrick Godeau, Sidney H. Griffith, Michael Jones, Adriano Luzi, William Lyster, Father Maximous El-Anthony, Elizabeth E. Oram, Birger A. Pearson, Robert K. Vincent., Jr., and Tim Vivian.

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