Holy Image, Hallowed Ground

Icons From Sinai

Editor: RobertNelson

Getty Trust Publications (United States), 2007
Hardback, 320 pages
Size: 305x228 mm
ISBN: 9780892368556
ISBN-10: 0892368551

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Holy Image, Hallowed Ground

At the base of Mount Sinai sits the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Christian world: The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai which houses the most important collection of Byzantine icons. This catalogue features 6 manuscripts and 43 of the monastery's rarely exhibited icons and their central role in Byzantine times.

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