Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea Sketchbooks & Notebooks Each image is accompanied by

Each image is accompanied by useful close-ups or color mixes to help artists along the way

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Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea Sketchbooks & Notebooks Each image is accompanied byAn 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