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The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit - At the Monastery of St. Paul in Egypt (Hardcover)
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The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit - At the Monastery of St. Paul in Egypt (Hardcover)
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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
visually and intellectually exciting 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. Published in association with the American
Research Center in Egypt, Inc.
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