The Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena is a Coptic encaustic painting on wood, brought from the Apollo monastery at Bawit in Egypt and now held in the Louvre in Paris. It measures about 57 by 57 centimetres and is 2 centimetres thick. The icon has suffered damage over the years, including missing pigment and two vertical cracks, though the image can still be clearly made out. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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MediumEncaustic painting on wood 1 Connections
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Description
The icon is an encaustic painting on wood and was brought from the Apollo monastery in Bawit, Egypt
Lead section
The Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena (French: L'Icone du Christ et de l'Abbe Menas) is a Coptic painting which is now in the Louvre museum, in Paris
Genre reference
The Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena is a Coptic encaustic painting on wood, brought from the Apollo monastery at Bawit in Egypt and now held in the Louvre in Paris.
In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
The Icon of Christ and Abbot Mena (French: L'Icône du Christ et de l'Abbé Ménas) is a Coptic painting which is now in the Louvre museum, in Paris. The icon is an encaustic painting on wood and was brought from the Apollo monastery
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