Icons from Sinai: Holy Image / Hallowed Ground

by Robert S. Nelson and Thomas Mathews

Isolated in the remote Egyptian desert, at the base of Mount Sinai, sits the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Christian world. The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai holds the most important collection of Byzantine icons remaining today. This catalogue, published in conjuction with the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai , on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from November 14, 2006, to March 4, 2007, features...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892368551
• ISBN13: 9780892368556
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 5.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 12.3" x 9.3"