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...Paper-Doll Stare. Offering a rare opportunity to see this uncommon art, the Villa Hugel-formerly the mam Krupp estate in Essen, Germany-has assembled an exhaustive exhibition of Coptic art from private collectors and museums: some 625 works ranging from the Hellenic antecedents, of 3rd century Alexandria, to 20th century examples from Nubia and Ethiopia...
...paint and carve figures in lifelike proportion was forgotten, and faces began to take on fixed expressions of wonder, glee and terror. But "primitive" art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of "high culture," and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were expressing their real concern; they were painting, carving and weaving the material of their daily lives against the Christian vision...
...devout: ivory angels carved on a comb, a double lamp in a twin-tailed bronze dove, a polka-dotted leather sandal, a rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...
...more than 100 prelates representing Orthodox churches of Russia, Czechoslovakia, the U.S., Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council, Roman Catholic Benedictine monks, and delegations from the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Nestorians of Iraq and Syria, the Armenian Catholicate of Cilicia...
...Dead Sea Scrolls got all the publicity. But more useful to students of early Christian history is a cache of Coptic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in northern Egypt in 1945, the remnants of a library used by a community of Gnostics in the 5th century. The texts are copies of sacred writings from earlier centuries, when the church was struggling to disentangle itself from the early heresy of Gnosticism, which blended Christian ideas with mystical elements from pagan religions of the East. Published last week was the first English translation of one of the most important Nag Hammadi documents...