Title

Mural paintings in the ruins of the Monastery of St Apollo at Bawit, Egypt, (1928). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Mural paintings in the ruins of the Monastery of St Apollo at Bawit, Egypt, (1928). '1st Half of 7th Century A.D...The painting is on the S. wall of chapel 18...whether the boy among the scattered flowers should be interpreted as a symbol or is merely a profane character is open to doubt'. After Jean Clédat. Plate XL, fig 93, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

Date

1928

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G24_285

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (5,6Mb) / 16,5in x 11,2in / 4940 x 3363 (300dpi)

Keywords

building people Clédat Jean Jean Cledat Cledat Jean male boy boys interior religious wall walls arts painting monastery country Egypt religion figure pattern book color Egyptian design decoration decorative medieval archaeology mural location century archaeological inside fresco interior design literature archaeological site archeology twenties geometrical interior decoration Colour Patterned Indoors mediaeval 1920s Middle Ages 20th century The Print Collector 7th century Asyut Coptic lithograph Unknown Bossert Mizraim Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration Helmuth Theodor Bossert Hellmut Theodor Helmuth Theodor Helmuth Hellmut Theodor Bossert Helmuth Bossert Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Wasmuth Verlag Ernst Ernst Wasmuth Ltd Wasmuth Ltd Bawit Monastery of Apa Apollo Monastery of St Apollo Jean Clédat