DOI issue:
Sudan
DOI article:Jakobielski, Stefan: Monastery 1995
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26390#0115
unifbrm in style and time of execution; paintings continued to be
added by several other painters, most probably even in the 14"'
century.
This season, 14 paintings in buildings NW-S and SW were
added to the more than 30 murals (including fragments) discovered
in previous years. All were documented, treated and protected in
situ. A great composition of the Nativity (13"' century), which
occupies the whole eastern wall m room 23, merits special
attention as does also a figure of the Archangel Michael on the
opposite wall. In the hall (20), a large representation of an
ascending figure shown in the context of a burning bush - Moses
perhaps - was found on the northern wall. In Building SW
(room 1), a whole series of representations of the Holy Virgin,
painted in the 12*" century, were discovered: the Nursing Virgin
(Fig. 6); another picture of a spinning Nursing Virgin
(an iconographical theme not encountered so far in Nubian art);
and the figure of the Virgin Enthroned. Among loose fragments
found in sand in the same room, there was a part of the legend to
still another representation of the Holy Virgin. In the neighbouring
room 2, representations of St. Epiphanius, dressed in bishop's
garments, and of Jeremy, the Prophet, were discovered.
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added by several other painters, most probably even in the 14"'
century.
This season, 14 paintings in buildings NW-S and SW were
added to the more than 30 murals (including fragments) discovered
in previous years. All were documented, treated and protected in
situ. A great composition of the Nativity (13"' century), which
occupies the whole eastern wall m room 23, merits special
attention as does also a figure of the Archangel Michael on the
opposite wall. In the hall (20), a large representation of an
ascending figure shown in the context of a burning bush - Moses
perhaps - was found on the northern wall. In Building SW
(room 1), a whole series of representations of the Holy Virgin,
painted in the 12*" century, were discovered: the Nursing Virgin
(Fig. 6); another picture of a spinning Nursing Virgin
(an iconographical theme not encountered so far in Nubian art);
and the figure of the Virgin Enthroned. Among loose fragments
found in sand in the same room, there was a part of the legend to
still another representation of the Holy Virgin. In the neighbouring
room 2, representations of St. Epiphanius, dressed in bishop's
garments, and of Jeremy, the Prophet, were discovered.
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