father of modern Coptic icon painting and the initiator of the modern renaissance in Coptic art. Fanous drew all the pictures and icons in St. Takla Haymanot's Church in Alexandria, which was consecrated in 1969. Between 1977 and 1978, he spent six months in the UK to paint icons in St Mark's Coptic Orthodox church in Allen Street, Kensington, London. See also Coptic art Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Icon List of prominent Copts References External links Obituary for Isaac Fanous in Al Ahram daily newspaper in Arabic Mosaic Frescos of St. Takla Haymanot's Story, Alexandria, Egypt St Mark's Coptic Orthodox church website , which includes a gallery of the Icons of the church Coptic Icons. The Coptic Icons from Holy Virgin Mary Church in Los Angeles http://www.copts-united.com/wrr/go1.php?subaction=showfull&id=1169064300&archive=&start_from=&ucat=79& http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cce/id/2162/rec/1 Egyptian people of Coptic descent Coptic Christians from Egypt Art historians Coptic art 1919 births 2007 deaths Academics from Cairo Artists from Cairo Helwan University alumni Icon painters 20th-century Egyptian painters