Nicholas Warner
Nicholas Warner is an architect and architectural historian with a specialization in historic preservation who has been based in Egypt since 1993.
Warner, Nicholas
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Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
In 1909 the church of the Red Monastery was subjected to the first documented restoration project in its history, which was carried out by the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe (fig. 19.1). This body, established by Khedive Tawfiq (r. 1879–1892) in...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.243-259
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.19
Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
At the very end of the nineteenth century, the English architect and antiquarian Somers Clarke...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.231-241
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.18
Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
The Red Monastery lies between the cultivated lands of the Nile Valley and the high escarpment of the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.49-77
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.6