Studying stucco decorations of churches provides a valuable insight into the history of Christian communities in the Gulf in the early Islamic period. As one of the most important materials of artistic expression for Christians of this region it helps us to answer many questions about people who lived in what is today Kuwait and other Gulf states. Continuer la lecture de Why Study Stucco? The Importance of Stucco Decorations for Christian Communities of the Gulf in the Early Islamic Period
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Agnieszka Lic is a doctoral student in Archaeology at the University of Oxford, where she prepares a PhD thesis concerning Christian stucco decorations in Southern Mesopotamia and the Gulf region in the late Sasanian and the early Islamic period. Before her doctoral programme she studied History of Art at the Jagiellonian Univeristy in Kraków, Poland and History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Her research interests are: early Islamic archaeology and art, Christian art and architecture of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic Middle East, Christian-Muslim artistic relationships and architectural decoration in the Gulf. Since 2015 she has been a member and a stucco specialist of the French-Kuwaiti Archaeological Mission in Failaka.