The Artistic School of Archpriest Gerges Abd al-Masih al-Maqari (19 century)By applying two icons from the Monastery of Anba Makar

Nasr, Randa wagdi; El Makari, monk Makary

doi:10.21608/jaauth.2023.213975.1463

	The Artistic School of Archpriest Gerges Abd al-Masih al-Maqari (19 century)By applying two icons from the Monastery of Anba Makar " Artistic Archaeological Study"
Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality
Volume 24, Issue 2, June 2023, Page 238-256 PDF (1.6 MB)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/jaauth.2023.213975.1463
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Authors
Randa wagdi Nasr ¹; monk Makary El Makari²
¹Egypt, EL fayoum, faculty of tourism and hotels management, Fayoum University
²Ava Makar monastery
Abstract
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed an abundance of icons, most of the Coptic churches and monasteries were filled with icons with various pictorial features. During that period, the names of many Coptic icon painters emerged, among them, for example, Ibrahim the Naskh, John the Armenian, Menkerios Gerges, and Anastasi Al-Roumi. Despite the entire artistic heritage left to us by these iconographers, there are many artifacts and icons that were drawn by some monks and priests about whom history knew nothing, and their works still adorn the walls of ancient churches and monasteries. Hegomen (priest) Gerges Abd al-Masih al-Maqari, one of the monks of Anba Makar Monastery who lived in the nineteenth century AD, is one of those Iconographers, and the most prominent witness to the existence of artists about whom the history of Coptic art did not know anything. His works is in the Monastery of St. Macarius the great in Wadi El-Natrun, one of the most famous ancient monasteries in Egypt and the world, which dates back to the fourth century AD. The importance of the study lies in: introducing the monk Gerges Abd al-Masih al-Maqari the painter of the two icons of the study, making an artistic and archaeological study of the two icons (published for the first time), which are the crucifixion icon, and the icon of the Virgin Mary the Queen, with an explanation of the writings on the two icons that document a historical period in the history of the Coptic Church,
Keywords
Gerges Abd al-Masih; Monastery of Anba Makar; Wadi al-Natrun; the crucifixion; the Virgin Mary


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The Artistic School of Archpriest Gerges Abd al-Masih al-Maqari (19 century)By applying two icons from the Monastery of Anba Makar " Artistic Archaeological Study"