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

 - xxxix, 390 p.,  ill. (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans;  32 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-376) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780300212303 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Coptic monasteries--History--Egypt--Sohag<br/>Coptic monasteries--Conservation and restoration--Egypt--Sohag<br/>Monasteries--History--Egypt--Sohag<br/>Byzantine architecture--Egypt--Sohag<br/>Religious architecture--Egypt--Sohag<br/>Christian antiquities--Egypt--Sohag<br/>Byzantine art--Egypt--Sohag<br/>Coptic art--Egypt--Sohag
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sohag--Antiquities.--Egypt