Acknowledgments

Bolman, Elizabeth S.

Save Cite Share

Free

Acknowledgments

Elizabeth S. Bolman (Editor)

The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

~It has been an extraordinary privilege to have spent the last fifteen years working on one of the great monuments surviving from the early Byzantine Empire. Projects such as this one, involving extensive site work and...

Author

Elizabeth S. Bolman (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23720

Acknowledgments

It has been an extraordinary privilege to have spent the last fifteen years working on one of the great monuments surviving from the early Byzantine Empire. Projects such as this one, involving extensive site work and publication, represent the labors of countless people and institutions. I am deeply grateful to all of them. In addition to the individuals mentioned in the introduction, I would like especially to thank my numerous colleagues: the conservators, monks, inspectors, administrators, and staff at arce and usaid, Egyptian site staff, and contributors to this book. Particularly instrumental in the launching and maintenance of the project were Mark Easton, arce's director at the time, Robert Chip Vincent, then director of the arce conservation projects, and Michael Jones, now associate director of the Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Project. The current director of arce Gerry D. Scott III, has supported the project with unwavering dedication for the majority of its existence. Special thanks also go to Madame Amira Khattab for her administration of the permissions for the entirety of our time at the Red Monastery. Assistant conservators working on-site were Emiliano Albanese, Chiara Di Marco, Emiliano Abrusca, Luigi De Prezzo, Diego Pistone, Valentina Peri Proto, Ilaria Bigiaretti, Alessandra Meschini, Maria Cristina Tomassetti, Chiara Arrighi, Federico Ratti, Emiliano Antonelli, Gerardo Russo, Riccardo Remigio, Cristina Caldi, Sara Scarafoni, Gianluca Tancioni, Ilaria De Martinis, and Chiara Compostella. Contributors to documentation in various media were Nicholas Warner, Sergio Tagliacozzi, Patrick Godeau, Arnaldo Vescovo, Pietro Gasparri, Giovanni Tamburro, Gustavo Camps, Pieter Collett, Michelangelo Lupo, Marti Gorini, and Marina Marchese. Father Maximous El-Antony was an invaluable member of the team from the very beginning, functioning as a conservation consultant, liaison with the monastery, and administrator of the local staff (fig. 0.30). We could not have completed the project without him. The Coptic Orthodox Church provided constant support and generous hospitality, led by Bishop Youannis and Father Antonious al-Shenoudi. Our colleagues in what was then called the sca, and more recently the MoA, were stellar collaborators. Of special significance from the Sohag office were Mohammed abdel Rahim, Saad Mohammed Mohammed Osman, and Aly Zaghloul Aly (fig. 0.31). Our friends at the White Monastery were also essential to the success of the project, particularly Abouna Fam, Abouna Shenouda, Abouna Wissa, and Abouna Athanasios. Numerous specialists devoted their considerable skills and efforts to analyzing the monument, and many of them contributed to this book. Kathleen Scott, director of ARCH Publications, expertly facilitated all aspects of the publication process and provided constant encouragement. Peter Grossmann generously made himself available for assistance throughout the project, and he has permitted us to use his drawings and those made in 1962 by the Darmstadt Technische Hochschule. Great thanks are due Roger S. Bagnall and Helen C. Evans for their ongoing support. I am especially grateful to the staff and associates of Yale University Press for their meticulous work on this book, especially Katherine Boller, Mary Mayer, Heidi Downey, Tamara Schechter, Leslie Fitch, and Ann Twombly. Special acknowledgment also goes to Laurel Darcy Hackley for her work as my assistant, and to the faculty of the Department of Art History and the administration of the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, for extraordinary support. I am indebted to several wonderful teachers, especially Dale Kinney, Robert M. Harris, Renata Holod, Steven Z. Levine, and Barbara Kellum. My parents, Katherine Bolman, William M. Bolman, and Victoria Asayama, have been unwavering in their interest and enthusiasm, as have William N. and Cynthia Lyster, for which I thank them. Fundamental to all my achievements, which would be far fewer without his involvement, is my husband, William Lyster. I could never have finished this book without his exceptional editorial skills, support, creativity, and ability to make me laugh.

~

Description: Father Maximous El-Antony in the northern lobe of the triconch, Red Monastery...

30. Father Maximous El-Antony in the northern lobe of the triconch.

~

Description: Members of the Red Monastery team, northern lobe of the triconch, Red Monastery...

31. Alberto Sucato, Saad Mohammed Mohammed Osman, Elizabeth S. Bolman, Mohammed Abdel Rahim, Luigi De Cesaris, and Nahla Abdallah, northern lobe of the triconch, March 2008.

Additionally, I am grateful to the following people and institutions for their contributions to the project: Amir Abdel Hamid, Janie Abdul Aziz, Sylvia Atalla, Devon Baker, Dina Bakhoum, Sarah Bassett, Ghada El Batouty, Jim Beaver, Nicole Beck, Dominique Bénazeth, Philip Betancourt, Louise Blanke, David Brakke, Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Deborah Brown, Peter Brown, Betsy Brown, Gudrun Bühl, Michael Burgoyne, Sean Callahan, Daniel Caner, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Heather Castro, Alan Chalmers, Malcolm Choate, Tracy E. Cooper, Shana Cooperstein, Slobodan Ćurčić, Thomas Dailey, Thamar Dasnabédian, Vivian Davies, Francesca De Cesaris, Djodi Deutsch, Therese Dolan, Dumbarton Oaks, Kathann El-Amin, Kenneth Ellis, Barbara Emmel, Fawzy Estafanous, Jane Evans, Diane Evitts, Farag Fadda, Louise Feder, Cassandra Fiorenza, Julie Flanagan, Victoria Fleck, Jaroslav Folda, Georgia Frank, Father Emmanuel Fritsch, the J. William Fulbright Program, Gawdat Gabra, Niels Gaul, Hagar Gehad, Sharon Gerstel, Allegra Getzel, Amy Gillette, Amie Gluckmann, Wlodzimierz Godlewski, James Goehring, Susanna Gold, Maria Golia, Michele Gudknecht, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Danielle A. Guimaraes, Marcia Hall, Sandy Haney, Hani Abu el Azm, Jassim Happa, Zahi Hawass, Tomasz Herbich, Colum Hourihane, Lucy-Ann Hunt, Salima Ikram, Mat Immerzeel, Karel Innemée, Lynn Jackson, Kaelin Jewell, Angela Milward Jones, Father Justin Sinaites, Matjaz Kacicnik, loanna Kakoulli, Jonathan Kline, Joseph Kopta, Derek Krueger, Vassiliki Limberis, Gertrud van Loon, Leslie S. B. MacCoull, Magdi al-Ghandour, Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Henry Maguire, Mamdouh Eldamaty, Marina Mandrikova, Thomas Mathews, Rachel Mauldin, Dawn McCormack, Susanna McFadden, Barbara McNulty, Mohammed Ismail Khaled, Mohammed Khalifa, Sarah Montgomery, Keith Morrison, Margaret Mullett, Peggyanne Nash, the National Endowment for the Humanities (any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the neh), Claudia Nauerth, Adele Nelson, Jeff Novak, Kaitlin Nowlin, Elisabeth O’Connell, David O’Connor, Sharyn O’Mara, Robert Ousterhout, Glenn Peers, Alice Price, Sam Price, Gillian Pyke, Rashed Mohammed Badari, Marguerite Rassart-Debergh, Nicole Restaino, Jeannette Rizk, Eugene Rogers, Marie-Hélène Rutschowscaya, Dina Aboul Saad, Mary Sadek, Linda Safran, Samiha Abdel Shaheed Abdel Nour, Samuel Abdel Mesih, Sofia Senaten, Sabine Schrenk, Caroline Schroeder, Seifalla Hassanein, Hans-Georg Severin, Lara Shawky, Peter Sheehan, Gerald Silk, Jane Smythe, Hester Stinnett, Robert Stroker, Hany Takla, Alice-Mary Talbot, William Talbot, JackTannous, Thelma Thomas, Anthony Vance, Maria Vassilaki, Rachael Vause, Fran Vincent, Jacques van der Vliet, Timothy Wardell, Ashley West, Warren Woodfin, Stephen R. Zwirn, and Diane van Zyverden. I am especially grateful to Agnieszka Szymańska for her very careful, critical reading of the book manuscript. Profound thanks also to the many young men from Minya who worked as staff for the Red Monastery Project, as well as personnel from the monastery itself and the surrounding area, who helped in numerous ways. I will never forget the extraordinary friendliness and hospitality of the Egyptian people. Very sincere apologies to anyone I have inadvertently overlooked.

Previous chapter Next chapter

Base text size -

Chapter images ()