Zuzana Skálová (born 30 March 1945 in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

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) is a Czech historian of medieval art, restorer and teacher of restoring of Coptic icons, who was settled and active from 1989 till 1996 in

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

. She restored and taught restoring of Coptic icons in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

and restored Coptic icons in the

Monastery of St. Catherine Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...

in Sinai, and others.

Studies

* 1969–1975 History of Art and Archaeology, The

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, Diss. 1976 * Centro Instituto per il restauro in

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* Byzantin Museum in

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, Studio of restoration (Stavros Baltoianis) * 1983, 1985, 1987 The Soviet all nations' Institute of restoration in Moscow

Practice

* 1988 – restoration of icons from collections of the

Saint Catherine's Monastery Saint Catherine's Monastery ( ar, دير القدّيسة كاترين; grc-gre, Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Katherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, ...

on Sinai * 1989–1996 living in Egypt, restoration of Coptic icons and teaching of restorers in Egypt; Leader of The Foundation for the Conservation of Icons in the Middle East; in collaboration with

Institute of Coptic Studies The Institute of Coptic Studies (معهد الدراسات القبطية) was founded in 1954 by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It is based in Cairo. Description The institute is the Egyptian church's main research centre in subjects ...

in Cairo.

Bibliography

*''Icons of the Nile Valley''. (co-author

Gawdat Gabra Dr. Gawdat Gabra (born 1947) ( ar, جودت جبرا, Coptic: Ⲅⲁⲩⲇⲁⲧ Ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲁ) is a Coptologist; he finished his bachelor's degree in Egyptian Antiquities – Cairo University 1967 and PhD in Coptic Antiquities University of Mü ...

). Egyptian International Publishing Company – Longman, (1st edition 2003, 2nd edition 2006); *The 17th century Icon Mother of God Of Smolensk ‚Rediscovered‘, in: ''Preprints of the 8th Triennial Conference'', ICOM Conservation Committee, Marina del Rey 1987, III, pp. 1127–1131. *St. Mark the Evangelist with Severed Head: Unique Iconography in Egypt. In: ''Byzantinoslavica'', Revue internationale des études Byzantines 56, Num. 3 (1995), pp. 721–734. *Zuzana Skálová and Stephen Davis, A Medieval Icon with Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin in the Church of Abu Seifein, Cairo : An Interdisciplinary Approach', Bulletin de la Société d'Archéologie Copte 39 (2000), p. 227 * A Holy Map to Christian Tradition: Preliminary Notes on Painted Proskynetaria of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Era. In: ''Rýžoviště zlata a doly drahokamů. Sborník pro Václava Huňáčka''. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart, 2006 pp. 99–119. * St. John the Baptist in Dayr al-Suryan, in the Wadi Natrun: A Crusader era Deesis icon from the Byzantine periphery: Re-vivified using the "Mobile Icon Restoration Unit" 2000–2010. In: ''Byzantinoslavica'', Revue internationale des études Byzantines 72, Num. 1–2 (2014), pp. 350–369 *Zuzana Skálová, Magdi Mansour and Youhanna Nesim Youssef: ''Three Medieval Beam – Icons on Coptic Patriarchal Churches in Cairo'', in: Actes du Symposium de Fouilles Copte 1995. Cairo 1998.

Literature

* Elizabeth Sleeman: Zuzana Skalova, in: The International Who's Who of Women 2006, Routledge London-Brighton 2005, * https://www.academia.edu/5140507/To_the_world_s_end_for_the_love_of_icons.../

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