Part I: The Red Monastery and Its Church

Bolman, Elizabeth S.

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Part I: The Red Monastery and Its Church

Elizabeth S. Bolman (Editor)

The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

Part I

Author

Elizabeth S. Bolman (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23721

Part I: The Red Monastery and Its Church

1 The Red Monastery in Early Byzantine Egypt
Andrew Crislip

2 Pshoi and the Early History of the Red Monastery
Stephen Emmel and Bentley Layton

3 “The Possessions of Our Poverty”: Beauty, Wealth, and Asceticism in the Shenoutean Federation
Elizabeth S. Bolman

4 Liturgy and Ritual Practice in the Shenoutean Federation
Ugo Zanetti and Stephen J. Davis

5 The Type of the Triconch Basilica
Dale Kinney

6 Architectural Survey
Nicholas Warner

7 Architectural Sculpture
Dale Kinney

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BOOKThe Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

Elizabeth S. Bolman (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23714

The Red Monastery church is the most important extant early Christian monument in Egypt’s Nile Valley, and one of the most significant of its period in the Mediterranean region. A decade-long conservation project has revealed some of the best surviving and most remarkable early Byzantine paintings known to date. The church was painted four times during the 5th and 6th centuries, and significant portions of each iconographic program are preserved. Extensive painted ornament also covers the church’s elaborate architectural sculpture, echoing the aesthetics found at San Vitale in Ravenna and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Distinguished contributors from a wide range of disciplines, including art and architectural history, ancient religion, history, and conservation, discuss the church’s importance. Topics include late antique aesthetics, early monastic concepts of beauty and ascetic identity, and connections between the center and the periphery in the early Byzantine world. Illustrated with more than 300 images, this landmark publication introduces the remarkable history and magnificence of the church and its art to the public for the first time.

The book's introduction includes a fascinating video overview of the Red Monastery Church and related conservation efforts.

Published in association with American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.

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Author

Elizabeth S. Bolman (Editor)

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date June 2016 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300212303

EISBN 9780300275674

Illustrations 366

Print Status out of print

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