COPTIC ART by Klaus Wessel ( Thames & Hudson )

Description: Very good copy of the first English translation. Cover slightly age dusted, very slight tear top of spine, not price clipped, book is In very good condition, nice bright, tight. This is a very nice copy of the book, especially considering its age. Very Good Plus. Profusely illustrated with 23 colour plates and 133 black and white plates. (From inside front dust jacket:)Coptic ArtKlaus Wessel The Art of Egypt, at the time when paganism was coming to an end and Christendom was preparing to assume sole mastery of the Roman Empire, has remained relatively unexplored. Professor Klaus Wessel projects a new sharply contoured picture of this Coptic art, long recognized by art historians for stark, almost expressionistic force, its internal diversity and variety of media and techniques: sculpture, grave reliefs, icon paintings, splendid tapestries - its characteristics styles and subjects: delicately rendered Greek deities, formidable and primitive idols, often embossed with Christian symbols. this new, definitive analysis of the mysterious art of the Copts, contrary to earlier theories, views it as the product of more or less unified groups whose histories run parallel for several centuries, mingling only after the Arab conquest in the 8th century. Bu creating within this book a small museum of Coptic Art from major public and private collections throughout the world, Professor Wessel has compiled the most comprehensive and penetrating study available today. His discussions of the art in in terms of its historical background - Rome from Caesar to Diocletian and Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra - will stimulate the serious student and fascinate the general reader. Klaus Wessel was, until 1958, professor of Christian archaeology, ecclesiastical art and church history at the University of Greifswald, Germany. He has also been guest professor of early Christian and East European art history at the University of Berlin and Director of the Early Christian-Byzantine collection of the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, which contain a most important collection of Coptic material. Since 1959, he has been professor of early Christian and Byzantine art at the t University of Munich.

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