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Northern lobe, showing architectural polychromy with Anthanasios, Cyril and Theophilos in the niches

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Description: Northern lobe, showing architectural polychromy with Anthanasios, Cyril and...
TitleNorthern lobe, showing architectural polychromy with Anthanasios, Cyril and Theophilos in the niches
Creator roleArchitect
Creation datec. 500–600
Object typeArchitecture
LocationRed Monastery church, Sohag, Egypt
SubjectsArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantineMural painting and decoration, Byzantine
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Chapter 8. Artistic Working Practice and the Second-Phase Ornamental Program
William Lyster
Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the early Byzantine paintings in the Red Monastery church is the lavish...
Author
William Lyster
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2016 by American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.
Related print edition pages: pp.97-117
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.8
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23730&redirecttoanchor=102486
Chapter subject tags:Red Monastery church, Sohag, EgyptArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantinePolychromy (Architecture)

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