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Architectural polychromy

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Description: Architectural polychromy
TitleArchitectural polychromy
Creator roleArchitect
Creation datec. 500–525
Object typeArchitecture
MaterialsEncaustic
LocationRed Monastery church, Sohag, Egypt
SubjectsArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantinePolychromy (Architecture)
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Chapter 9. A Staggering Spectacle: Early Byzantine Aesthetics in the Triconch
Elizabeth S. Bolman
Description: The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
One of the rarest and most dramatic aspects of the Red Monastery church triconch is its painted skin...
Author
Elizabeth S. Bolman
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2016 by American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.
Related print edition pages: pp.119-127
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.9
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23731&redirecttoanchor=102503
Chapter subject tags:Red Monastery church, Sohag, EgyptArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantineTriconchsPolychromy (Architecture)

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Accession numberN/A
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Description: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, interior
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Creation datec. 530AD–540AD
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