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" Holy image, hallowed ground : "
edited by Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins.
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BL
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848595
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Holy image, hallowed ground : : icons from Sinai /\ edited by Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins.
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| Publication Statement
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Los Angeles :: J. Paul Getty Museum,, ©2006.
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xv, 304 pages :: illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ;; 31 cm
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0892368551
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: 089236856X
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: 9780892368556
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: 9780892368563
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| Notes
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Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 14, 2006-Mar. 4, 2007.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and indexes.
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| Abstract
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"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 conjunction 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 forty-three of the monastery's extremely rare--and rarely exhibited--icons and six manuscripts still little-known to the world at large. -- The exhibition and catalogue bring to life the central role of the icon in Byzantine religious practices. Themes include the icon's status as holy object, the ways in which the icon sanctified the place of worship, and the monks' quest for the holy. The Greek Orthodox monastery at Mount Sinai not only functioned as a major pilgrimage site for centuries but was also a cultural crossroads at the center of the shifting sands of ecclesiastical and secular politics. The accompanying essays explore how the monastery's contact with the outside world, through pilgrimage, resulted in aesthetic exchanges between the monastery and Coptic, Crusader, and Islamic art; and between the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities in Europe."
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Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)
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Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai).
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Monastère de Sainte-Catherine (Mont Sinaï, Égypte)
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Monastère Sainte-Catherine (Mont Sinaï, Égypte)-- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)
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Icons-- Cult-- Egypt-- Sinai, Mount.
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Icons-- Egypt-- Sinai, Mount, Exhibitions.
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Icons, Byzantine, Exhibitions.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine, Exhibitions.
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Enluminure byzantine, Expositions.
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Icônes byzantines, Expositions.
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Icônes-- Culte-- Égypte-- Sinaï, Mont, Expositions.
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Icônes-- Égypte-- Sinaï, Mont, Expositions.
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Enluminure byzantine-- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Icônes byzantines-- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Icônes-- Égypte-- Sinaï, Mont (Égypte)-- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Icons-- Cult.
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Icons, Byzantine.
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Icons.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.
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Egypt, Mount Sinai.
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| Dewey Classification
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704.9/4820953107479494
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| LC Classification
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N8186.E3S564 2006
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Collins, Kristen M.
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Nelson, Robert S.,1947-
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J. Paul Getty Museum.
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| Parallel Title
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Icons from Sinai
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