Zuzana Skálová (born 30 March 1945 in

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

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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 ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

. She restored and taught restoring of Coptic icons in

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and restored Coptic icons in the Monastery of St. Catherine 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 ( , ), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of 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 in Cairo.

Bibliography

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

Gawdat Gabra Dr. Gawdat Gabra (born 1947) (, Coptic language, 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 Münster ...

). 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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