The Discovery and Conservation of a Lost Church: Egypt's Sistine Chapel, live Zoom lecture by Elizabeth S. Bolman (Case Western University), May, 6, 2020, 5:00 pm

In 1997, Elizabeth Bolman entered a forgotten fifth-century church at a remote site in Upper Egypt, and realized that her life had changed forever. In this lecture, she tells the amazing story of the church, its conservation, and the many exceptional people and institutions that made the project possible.

Zoom link must be requested by 4:00 pm on May 6.

Elizabeth S. Bolman is Elsie B. Smith Professor in the Liberal Arts and Chair of the Department of Art History, Art and Art Education at Case Western Reserve University. She engages with the visual culture of the eastern Mediterranean in the late antique and Byzantine periods. She is best known for her work in Egypt, in which she has demonstrated the vitality of Christian Egyptian art and presented new understandings of the nature of artistic production in the early Byzantine and Medieval periods.