Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The Coptic Monastery of St. Paul by the Red Sea grew up around the cave where Paul, the first Christian hermit, lived in solitude. The cave served as a shrine in late antiquity, became a church in the middle ages, and expanded again in the early modern period. This ... book chronicles the history of a series of devotional paintings in the Cave Church. It explores how the monastic community commissioned painting twice in the church in the 13th century, during one of the greatest eras of Coptic art, and how one of the monks painted it again in the 18th century, helping to inaugurate a Coptic renaissance after centuries of decline. The foundation of this volume is a wall painting conservation project sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt. The book also sets the art and architecture of the Cave Church in its historical context and examines the role of the Monastery of St. Paul as part of the sacred geography of Christian Egypt through time."

Monasteries --- Christian antiquities --- Church architecture --- History --- Monastery of St. Paul the Hermit (Egypt) --- Coptic Church --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- Cloisters (Religious communities) --- Friaries --- Church property --- Religious institutions --- Scriptoria --- Church of Egypt --- Alexandria (Egypt : Coptic Patriarchate) --- Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria --- Coptic Church. --- Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria --- Baṭriyarkīyat al-Aqbāṭ al-Urthūdhuks --- Coptic Orthodox Church --- Kanīsah al-Qibṭīyah al-Urthūdhuksīyah --- Kanīsah al-Masīḥīyah bi-Miṣr --- Kanīsah al-Qibṭīyah --- Koptische Kirche --- الكنيسة القبطية --- كنيسة الاقباط الأرثوذكس --- كنيسة القبطية --- كنيسة القبطية الارثوذكسية --- Monastery of Saint Paul the Hermit (Egypt) --- Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite (Egypt) --- Monastery of the Tigers (Egypt) --- St. Paul's Monastery (Egypt) --- Deir Mar Boulos (Egypt) --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Monasteries - Egypt --- Christian antiquities - Egypt --- Church architecture - Egypt - History --- Paulus Thebaeus --- Saint-Paul (Egypte) --- Egypte --- Monastères --- Coptic Church - Egypt - History --- Egypt - Antiquities