Monastic Visions
Subtitle: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780300092240
Subjects: History of art: c 500 CE to c 1400; Painting & paintings; Religious subjects depicted in art; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Painting In Specific Media; Religion And Art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Red Sea; History - Medieval; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Art / Religious; General; Christian saints in art; Church of St. Anthony (Egypt); Coptic mural painting and deco; Coptic mural painting and decoration; Egypt; Mural painting and decoration,; Mural painting and decoration, Medieval; Red Sea Region
First sentence: At the end of the fourth century, less than fifty years after the death of St. Antony the Great, John Cassian journeyed from either Scythia or Gaul to Palestine and thence to Egypt on a spiritual and geographical odyssey to discover in the desert both the roots of Christian monasticism and the God-given springs that nourished those roots (fig. 1.1).