Painted Churches And Rock-Cut Chapels of Lebanon.

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295 pp+ 6 pages plans hors text; 204 color plates,1 map, biblio, index. Copy in Mint Condition. New. Frescoes depicting personage of the Old and New testaments e.g. Abraham, Jesus, Mary and the Apostles, also saints and bishops of the church's history can be found in the churches of Lebanon. Father Youhanna Sader who is researching for years on the Christian art in Lebanon, proposes in this book a tour of the frescoes concerning the Crusade period which have survived in Maronite churches an rockut chapels of Lebanon. Reminding us of the origin of Christianity in Lebanon he points out that the origin of this Lebanese art is to found in Cappadocia. When this region was conquered by Muslim troops and moreover the iconoclastic period, hostile to images, prevent monks from exercising their art. The latter fled from there and joined their brethren in Lebanon. They brought their knowledge along and they and their Lebanese schools decorated many churches in Lebanon. The crusaders were so fascinated artists to paint their churches.