The Red Monastery Church: Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt
New Haven: American Research Center in Egypt / Yale University Press, 2016.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Printing. Illustrated with more than 300 images.
Publisher's description: The Red Monastery church is the most important extant early Christian monument in Egypt's Nile Valley, and one of the most significant of its period in the Mediterranean region. A decade-long conservation project has revealed some of the best surviving and most remarkable early Byzantine paintings known to date. The church was painted four times during the 5th and 6th centuries, and significant portions of each iconographic program are preserved. Extensive painted ornament also covers the church's elaborate architectural sculpture, echoing the aesthetics found at San Vitale in Ravenna and the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.
Distinguished contributors from a wide range of disciplines, including art and architectural history, ancient religion, history, and conservation, discuss the church's importance. Topics include late antique aesthetics, early monastic concepts of beauty and ascetic identity, and connections between the center and the periphery in the early Byzantine world.
Item #902709ISBN: 9780300212303
10-1/4 x 12-1/4", light brown cloth, brown endpapers, xxxix, 390pp, appendices, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, contributors, credits, index, fully illustrated in color.
Bookplate first paste-down endpaper, bumping to lower corner of rear board not affecting internal leaves, else fine in moderately rubbed dust wrapper, in protective mylar.
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Price: $200.00