11.9 Roman official, fresco painting

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TitleRoman official

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 298–302 CE

Object typePainting

MaterialsFresco

LocationImperial cult room, Luxor Temple, Luxor, Egypt

SubjectsRomans in artTemples--Egypt

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Chapter 11. Figural Styles, Egypt, and the Early Byzantine World

Elizabeth S. Bolman

The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

The Red Monastery triconch, with its stratigraphically clear phases of painting, provides an excellent opportunity to explore the variety of styles chosen for a single church in relatively quick succession. The monastic authorities had the triconch painted three times within about a century, and minor...

Author

Elizabeth S. Bolman

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.151-163

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00359.11

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23733&redirecttoanchor=102542

Chapter subject tags:Red Monastery church, Sohag, EgyptArchitecture, Byzantine--EgyptDecoration and ornament, ByzantineMural painting and decoration, ByzantineByzantine Empire--Church history

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