Holy Image, Hallowed Ground - Icons from Sinai

Informationen zum Autor Robert S. Nelson is Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art at Yale University and author of Hagia Sophia, 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument. Kristen M. Collins is assistant curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Thomas F. Mathews is John Langeloth Loeb Professor of the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York. David Jacoby is professor of history at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Father Justin Sinaites is librarian at the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai. Klappentext 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 important collection of Byzantine icons. This catalogue features forty-three of the monastery's icons and six manuscripts. Zusammenfassung 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 important collection of Byzantine icons. This catalogue features forty-three of the monastery's icons and six manuscripts.

Product details

• Authors: Robert S. (EDT)/ Collins Nelson
• Assisted by: Kristen Collins (Editor), Kristen M. Collins (Editor), Robert Nelson (Editor), Robert S. Nelson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2007
• EAN: 9780892368563
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-856-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 305 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Getty Trust Publications: J. P; Getty Trust Publications: J. P
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques