The Red Monastery Church

“Like the discovery of the Great Palace mosaics of Constantinople or the icons of Mount Sinai, Elizabeth Bolman's discovery of the Red Monastery paintings changes the face of Late Antique art. We are confronted now with the largest single unified program of Church decoration of the first millennium, with graceful figures articulating a sophisticated theological message that Bolman presents with masterful clarity.”—Thomas F. Mathews, author of The Clash of Gods: A Reinterpretation of Early Christian Art

~Thomas F. Mathews

"This enthralling book makes the exquisite, hitherto unknown Late Antique paintings of this Coptic monastery accessible and immediate with the world-changing jolts that very fine art history can still provide."—Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin

~Glenn Peers

"This sumptuously illustrated volume will greatly advance the study of early monasticism and early Christian architecture."—David Frankfurter, Boston University

~David Frankfurter

“[In this] splendidly produced volume, Elizabeth Bolman presents the results of the restoration work carried out by the American Research Center in Egypt at the Red Monastery. . . . The result, in Bolman’s justifiably proud words, is a ‘staggering spectacle.’”—Peter Brown, New York Review of Books

~Peter Brown, New York Review of Books