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The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven: Yale University Press; American Research Center in Egypt, 2016Description: xxxix, 390 p., ill. (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans; 32 cmISBN:
  • 9780300212303
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  • Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
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Contents:
Foreword / Gerry D. Scott III -- Preface / Michael Jones -- Prologue : the renaissance of the Red Monastery / Maximous El-Antony -- Introduction / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Part I. The Red Monoastery and its church. The Red Monastery in early Byzantine Egypt / Andrew Crislip -- Pshoi and the early history of the Red Monastery / Stephen Emmel and Bentley Layton -- "The possessions of our poverty" : beauty, wealth, and asceticism in the Shenoutean federation / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Liturgy and ritual practice in the Shenoutean federation / Ugo Zanetti and Stephen J. Davis --The type of the triconch basilica / Dale Kinney -- Architectural survey / Nicholas Warner -- Architectural sculpture / Dale Kinney -- Part II. Early Byzantine paintings in the Red Monastery church. Artistic working practice and the second-phase ornamental program / William Lyster -- A staggering spectacle : early Byzantine aesthetics in the triconch / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- The iconography of salvation / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Figural styles, Egypt, and the early Byzantine world / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Ascetic ancestors, identity and genealogy / Elizabeth S. Bolman and Agnieszka Szymańska -- Textual aesthetics : dipinti and the early Byzantine epigraphic habit / Paul C. Dilley -- Preparation of the eucharist : paintings in the side chambers / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Part III. A diachronic view of the Red Monastery. An eclipsed history : toward a framework for the medieval history of the Red Monastery / Mark N. Swanson -- A medieval flourishing at the White Monastery Federation : material culture / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Inscribed identities : prosopography of the Red and White Monasteries in the early Byzantine and medieval periods / Paul C. Dilley -- "A strange jumble of Roman detail" : western explorers and antiquarians at the Red Monastery, 1673-1926 / Nicholas Warner and Cédric Meurice -- Wall painting conservation at the Red Monastery church / Luigi De Cesaris, Alberto Sucato, and Emiliano Ricchi -- Conclusion / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Appendix 1. The Greek and Coptic inscriptions in the Red Monastery church / Paul C. DIlley -- Appendix 2.Numbering system and drawings.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-376) and index.

Foreword / Gerry D. Scott III -- Preface / Michael Jones -- Prologue : the renaissance of the Red Monastery / Maximous El-Antony -- Introduction / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Part I. The Red Monoastery and its church. The Red Monastery in early Byzantine Egypt / Andrew Crislip -- Pshoi and the early history of the Red Monastery / Stephen Emmel and Bentley Layton -- "The possessions of our poverty" : beauty, wealth, and asceticism in the Shenoutean federation / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Liturgy and ritual practice in the Shenoutean federation / Ugo Zanetti and Stephen J. Davis --The type of the triconch basilica / Dale Kinney -- Architectural survey / Nicholas Warner -- Architectural sculpture / Dale Kinney -- Part II. Early Byzantine paintings in the Red Monastery church. Artistic working practice and the second-phase ornamental program / William Lyster -- A staggering spectacle : early Byzantine aesthetics in the triconch / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- The iconography of salvation / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Figural styles, Egypt, and the early Byzantine world / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Ascetic ancestors, identity and genealogy / Elizabeth S. Bolman and Agnieszka Szymańska -- Textual aesthetics : dipinti and the early Byzantine epigraphic habit / Paul C. Dilley -- Preparation of the eucharist : paintings in the side chambers / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Part III. A diachronic view of the Red Monastery. An eclipsed history : toward a framework for the medieval history of the Red Monastery / Mark N. Swanson -- A medieval flourishing at the White Monastery Federation : material culture / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Inscribed identities : prosopography of the Red and White Monasteries in the early Byzantine and medieval periods / Paul C. Dilley -- "A strange jumble of Roman detail" : western explorers and antiquarians at the Red Monastery, 1673-1926 / Nicholas Warner and Cédric Meurice -- Wall painting conservation at the Red Monastery church / Luigi De Cesaris, Alberto Sucato, and Emiliano Ricchi -- Conclusion / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Appendix 1. The Greek and Coptic inscriptions in the Red Monastery church / Paul C. DIlley -- Appendix 2.Numbering system and drawings.

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