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Pshoi, the founder of the Red Monastery

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Description: Pshoi, the founder of the Red Monastery

TitlePshoi, the founder of the Red Monastery

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 500–600

Creation date (description)c. 6th century

Object typePainting

MaterialsTempera

LocationRed Monastery church, Sohag, Egypt

SubjectsMural painting and decoration, ByzantineDecoration and ornament, ByzantineMonks in art

StatusGhost of an earlier figure seen beneath the later paint layer

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Chapter 2. Pshoi and the Early History of the Red Monastery

Stephen Emmel and Bentley Layton

Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

Literary and material evidence indicates that a fourth-century ascetic named Pshoi founded the Red Monastery (fig. 2.1). Pshoi’s institution was a cenobium, that is, a communal monastery with an all-powerful abbot, collective worship and common food service, a rigid schedule of work and worship, an elaborate, walled...

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Stephen Emmel and Bentley Layton

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2016 by American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.

Related print edition pages: pp.11-15

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.2

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Chapter subject tags:Red Monastery church, Sohag, EgyptArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptByzantine Empire--Church historyPshoi, of Scetis, Saint, active 4th century-5th centuryByzantine Empire--Civilization--Egyptian influences

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