Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice

Plate 17, top. Icon of Virgin with Child Enthroned
between Archangels, Nine Church
Fathers and Nine Coptic Monks in the church
of St. Mercurius Abu's-Saifain. This photograph
documents its state of preservation in 1990. Photograph
by Ayman el-Kranat, courtesy if the Archive
of the church of St. Mercurius Abu's-Saifain.
Plate 18a, b, above lift and right. Icon of Six
Equestrian Saints in the church of St. Mercurius
Abu's-Saifa in, lift and right sides, showing the
beam's state of preservation in 1990. Photograph
by Ayman el-Kranat, courtesy of the Archive of
the church of St. Mercurius Abu's-Saifain.
Plate 19, right. Detail of the head of Joseph of
Aramathea from Deposition on the upper tier of
the east wall. Photograph courtesy of the Conservation
of Wall Painting Department, Courtauld
Institute of Art, London.