The Treasures Of The Monastery Of Saint Catherine
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Sinai
Author | : Kōnstantinos A. Manaphēs |
Publsiher | : Ekdotiki Athinon |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9602131586 |
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The Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai has been characterized by scholars as the most celebrated of the world's monasteries, while in the conscience of the Orthodox peoples it was and remains the most revered and longed-for focus of pilgrimage after the Holy Places. In the course of the Monastery's fifteen centuries of uninterrupted life, and despite the great difficulties faced in the midst of alien peoples, not only has St. Catherine's managed to maintain the Orthodox faith intact and provide the Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate with pre-eminent figures of Asceticism, but it also secured special privileges from the Prophet Mohammed and, at a later date, from popes of Rome and leaders of both the East and West. The Monastery thus proved itself a great spiritual hearth of Hellenism, rendering the most distinguished service to monasticism, Orthodoxy, the Church and the Greek people. At the same time, the Monastery acquired international fame as a unique centre of Byzantine icon painting. Here the specialist may study the uninterrupted development of this art from the 6th century up till the present day. Furthermore, the Monastery also developed its own Sinaitic school of icon painting with its own stylistic techniques and 'Sinaitic' subject matter. Examples of this school's work are encountered not only in icons but also in illuminated manuscripts of the calligraphic and chrysographic workshop of the Monastery's world-famous Library. The Monastery of Sinai, moreover, surrounded as it is by the fortification walls built by its founder, the Emperor Justinian, and isolated in the inhospitable desert, was through the centuries a secure haven for invaluable works of art sent from all corners of the Earth as devout offerings of the faithful. Byzantine, Post-Byzantine and Modern Greek works representing all types of ecclesiastical art make up the artistic treasures of the Monastery.
The Treasures of the Monastery of Saint Catherine
Author | : Corinna Rossi |
Publsiher | : White Star Publishers |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : IND:30000087221127 |
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Dating back to 324 AD, when a community of monks requested a chapel to be built on the spot where they believed the Burning Bush had stood, the monastery of St. Catherine has remained an oasis of peace for centuries. Today, it is a place of international pilgrimage, housing the most extensive collection of Greek Orthodox icons in the world. Granted unprecedented access to this holy site, photographer Araldo De Luca and author Corinna Rossi take readers inside the walls of this sacred place, revealing its peerless artistic, historical, and religious legacy through superb photographs and an authoritative text that incorporates the most recent research and discoveries. Presented in a handsome slipcase and featuring a preface by Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, the archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church, this is a book to be cherished by art lovers and anyone interested in our historical and religious heritage.
Saint Catherine s Monastery Sinai Egypt
Author | : Helen C. Evans |
Publsiher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Icons, Byzantine |
ISBN | : 9781588391094 |
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"In this book the Monastery and its buildings are presented in many newly commissioned color photographs: included are views of the richly decorated sanctuary of the sixth-century church as well as images of the world's most outstanding collection of icons. The Introduction by His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai and the essay on the Holy Monastery by Helen C. Evans augment the powerful and dramatic photographs of the site, some of them from the Monastery's archives"--Jacket.
The Monastery of Saint Catherine
Author | : Oriana Baddeley,Earleen Brunner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Christian antiquities |
ISBN | : 0952806312 |
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Standing beneath Mount Sinai in Egypt, the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine is the oldest and most important continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world. This text portrays the treasures that have survived from the Byzantine past, with detailed commentaries accompanied by photographs. It covers the library where there is a collection of codices and scrolls dating back to the 4th century AD, and the icon collection comprising of 6th and 7th century icons which have survived the scourge of iconoclasm. There is also a comprehensive collection of icons in the tempera technique illustrating the development of the Byzantine style from the 8th century to the present day.
The Monastery of Saint Catherine
Author | : Giovanna Magi |
Publsiher | : Casa Editrice Bonechi |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 8847615283 |
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The Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai
Author | : Jill Kamil |
Publsiher | : American Univ in Cairo Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9774242556 |
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An Eleventh Century Hexaptych of the Saint Catherine s Monastery at Mount Sinai
Author | : George Galavaris |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art, Byzantine |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105115365723 |
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The New Discoveries in St Catherine s Monastery
Author | : James H. Charlesworth,George Zervos |
Publsiher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008932868 |
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