Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea Sketchbooks & Notebooks including the reckless behavior that

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Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea Sketchbooks & Notebooks including the reckless behavior thatAn ancient church in the Coptic Monastery of St Antony at the Red Sea contains a unique cycle of 13th century wall paintings. They constitute by far the most complete and best preserved iconographic programme of Christian paintings to come from medieval Egypt. Ignored for centuries because they were covered with soot and overpainting, these compelling images have recently undergone conservation. This volume reproduces the cleaned paintings. It also