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Title:

Holy image, hallowed ground : icons from Sinai / edited by Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins.

Publisher:

J. Paul Getty Museum,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xv, 304 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (some col.) ; 31 cm.

Subject:

Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)--Exhibitions.
Icons, Byzantine--Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine--Exhibitions.
Icons--Cult--Sinai, Mount.--Sinai, Mount.
Icons--Sinai, Mount--Sinai, Mount--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Nelson, Robert S., 1947-
Collins, Kristen M.
J. Paul Getty Museum.

Notes:

Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 14, 2006-Mar. 4, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and indexes.

Contents:

Holy site : catalogue numbers 42-61. Kristen M. Collins -- Early icons of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai / Thomas F. Mathews -- The Sinai Codex Theodosianus : manuscript as icon / Justin Sinaites -- Christian pilgrimage to Sinai until the late fifteenth century / David Jacoby -- Visual piety and institutional identity at Sinai / Kristen M. Collins -- Holy image : catalogue numbers 1-19 -- Holy space : catalogue numbers 20-41 -- Holy site : catalogue numbers 42-61.

ISBN:

9780892368563 (pbk.)
089236856X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)69028123

LCCN:

2006016310

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)