The Thebaid was a southern region of ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt. The name comes from its capital, Thebes.
The panel depicts the lives of the Holy Fathers in the desert near Thebes, taken from Theodoret's "Historia medica seu ascetica vivendi ratio", where the biographies of thirty Holy Fathers are collected.
People, camels, ships, houses and Christian churches are found among the mountains and on the Nile River.
Tempera on wood
Fra Giovanni Angelico Da Fiesole (Vicchio (Florence), circa 1395[1] - Rome, Feb. 18, 1455), better known as Fra Angelico (the "Angelic Friar") or Beato Angelico ("Blessed Angelic") was a famous 15th-century painter-frater in Florence during the Italian Renaissance. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1982.
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