The Red Monastery church : beauty and asceticism in Upper Egypt

Weitere Verfasser: Bolman, Elizabeth S., 1960-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
Umfang/Format: xxxix, 390 p. : chiefly ill., graphics ; 31 cm.
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 3 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 Monastery 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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