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Holy image, hallowed ground : icons from Sinai / Icons from Sinai edited by Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins. - Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2006. - xv, 304 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 31 cm.

Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 14, 2006-Mar. 4, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and indexes.

Where God walked and monks pray / Robert S. Nelson -- Early icons of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai / Thomas F. Mathews -- The Sinai Codex Theodosianus : manuscript as icon / Father 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: 089236856X (paperback) 9780892368563 (paperback) 9780892368556 (hardcover) 0892368551 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2006016310

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)--Exhibitions.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Icons, Byzantine--Exhibitions.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine--Exhibitions.
Icons--Cult--Egypt--Sinai, Mount.
Icons--Egypt--Sinai, Mount--Exhibitions.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Exhibition catalogs.

LC Class. No.: N8186.E3 / S564 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 704.9/4820953107479494