Within the Red Monastery is an unparalleled example of a brightly painted “jeweled style” church.
Red Monastery, Sohag, Egypt, c. 500 C.E. (Coptic period) with later additions. In conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (on view March 14 through July 8, 2012), art historian Elizabeth Bolman introduces the Red Monastery project
