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Autore: | Jirjis Majdī |
Titolo: | An Armenian artist in Ottoman Egypt [[electronic resource] ] : Yuhanna al-Armani and his Coptic icons / / Magdi Guirguis ; photographs by Nabil Mankabadi |
Pubblicazione: | Cairo, Egypt ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2008 |
Edizione: | "A Friends of Armenian Culture ed." |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (159 p.) |
Disciplina: | 755.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Coptic icons |
Icons, Armenian - Egypt - Cairo | |
Icon painting - Egypt - History | |
Armenians - Egypt - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Cairo (Egypt) Intellectual life |
Egypt Civilization 638-1798 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | MankabadiNabil |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-121) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""The Background""; ""Icon-painting in Eighteenth-century Egypt""; ""Egyptian Icons before Yuhanna al-Armani""; ""The Armenian Community in Egypt""; ""A Biographical Sketch of Yuhanna al-Armani""; ""The Known Works of Yuhanna al-Armani""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix 1""; ""Appendix 2""; ""Appendix 3""; ""Plates Description""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" |
Sommario/riassunto: | Guirguis, an independent scholar in Cairo, has written an account of an icon painter who decorated several churches in 18th-century Cairo, with attention to the broader context of the Armenian community there, including its relationship to the Coptic community. |
Titolo autorizzato: | An Armenian artist in Ottoman Egypt |
ISBN: | 1-61797-101-4 |
1-936190-60-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459897903321 |
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