- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria
Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria
The Indigenous and the Foreign1
- Chapter:
- (p.269) 23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria
- Source:
- Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt
- Author(s):
Gawdat Gabra
Hany N. Takla
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
The Akhmim ciboria and icons with saints displaying rosaries fit into the period between the inimitable Mattary and the sophisticated Ibrahim al-Nasih, who worked between the 1740s and 1780. It is art of a theological and artistic revival, of ecumenism but also of provincial restraint, and lacking major artists. Without documents this attribution remains preliminary. New discoveries in the illustrated and dated Coptic-Arabic manuscripts from the Akhmim region, presented by Father Bigoul al-Suriany in this volume, will expand our knowledge. The meaning of the rosary as the symbol of the Coptic Catholic faith or as a sign of modernity has to be further researched. Christians in Upper Egypt cling to their traditions. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the modest Akhmim figurative art from the Beylik-Mamluk and missionary eras are those details that are loaned from late antique and early Coptic art in the Thebaide. Used more than a millennium later on hybrid Coptic-Arabic icons, these local attributes and gestures again demonstrate the remarkable survival of indigenous iconography.
Keywords: Akhmim ciboria, icons, rosary, Coptic art, Upper Egypt, Thebaide
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
1 “Do not Believe Every Word Like the Fool … !” -
2 Some Aspects of Volume 8 of Shenoute's Canons* -
3 Care for the Sick in Shenoute's Monasteries -
4 Shenoute's Place in the History of Monasticism -
5 Pachomius and the White Monastery -
6 The Role of the Female Elder in Shenoute's White Monastery1 -
7 The Ancient Rules of Shenoute's Monastic Federation -
8 The Fate of the White Monastery Library -
9 The Coptic Life of Shenoute -
10 Shenoute as Reflected in the Vita and the Difnar -
11 The Relationship of St. Shenoute of Atripe with his Contemporary Patriarchs of Alexandria -
12 Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Panopolitan Region Between Lykopolis and Nag Hammadi -
13 Monks and Scholars in the Panopolite Nome the Epigraphic Evidence -
14 Searching for Shenoute -
15 Biblical Manuscripts of the Monastery of St. Shenoute the Archimandrite -
16 Once more into the Desert of Apa Shenoute -
17 Bohairic Liturgical Texts Related to St. Shenoute1 -
18 Liturgy in the White Monastery -
19 Akhmim as a Source of Textiles -
20 Snapshots on the Sculptural Heritage of the White Monastery at Sohag -
21 The Triconch Sanctuaries of Sohag -
22 Two Witnesses of Christian Life in the Area of Balyana -
23 Toward an Understanding of the ‘Akhmim Style’ Icons and Ciboria -
24 Coptic Art During the Ottoman Period -
25 The Red Monastery Conservation Project, 2006 and 2007 - Abbreviations
- Bibliography
