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I just found this really cool link via the FB page of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society in Los Angeles. Courtesy of the American Research Center in Egypt, it is now possible to virtually 'tour' the chapel of St. Anthony's monastery in Egypt. Check it out for yourself via this link: Explore St. Anthony’s Chapel in 3D
I haven't explored the ARCE website very much yet, so I don't know what else they have digitized and offered for 'virtual tours', but the page concerning the monastery describes their preservation work there with the monastery's iconography:
I haven't explored the ARCE website very much yet, so I don't know what else they have digitized and offered for 'virtual tours', but the page concerning the monastery describes their preservation work there with the monastery's iconography:
In 1996, with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development and at the request of the Coptic Monastery of St. Anthony at the Red Sea, ARCE's Antiquities Development Project, in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities, began the conservation of a unique cycle of 13th century wall paintings in the monastery's ancient church.
Ignored for centuries because they were covered with soot and overpainting, the paintings revealed by the conservation phase of work, which was completed in 1999, are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with medieval Byzantine and Islamic art.
The paintings constitute the most complete and best-preserved iconographic program of Christian paintings to come from medieval Egypt. These paintings were carefully documented and published, alongside more newly discovered wall paintings in the church that date back to the 6th/7th century, in Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea in 2002.
Ignored for centuries because they were covered with soot and overpainting, the paintings revealed by the conservation phase of work, which was completed in 1999, are of extremely high quality, both stylistically and conceptually. While rooted in the Christian tradition of Egypt, they also reveal explicit connections with medieval Byzantine and Islamic art.
The paintings constitute the most complete and best-preserved iconographic program of Christian paintings to come from medieval Egypt. These paintings were carefully documented and published, alongside more newly discovered wall paintings in the church that date back to the 6th/7th century, in Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea in 2002.
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