An edition of Approaching the holy mountain
(2010)
Approaching the holy mountain
art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai
by Sharon E. J. Gerstel and Nelson, Robert S.
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Christian antiquities, Christian art and symbolism, Byzantine Icons, Orthodox Eastern Church, Antiquities, Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai), Liturgy, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in art, Congresses, Byzantine Illumination of books and manuscripts, Saint catherine (monastery : mount sinai)Places
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Approaching the holy mountain: art and liturgy at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai
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Table of Contents
Sinai studies : an overview and introduction -- Robert S. Nelson
Paving the road to Sinai : Georgios and Maria Soteriou on the holy mountain -- Ioanna Christoforaki
Place. --
The transfigured mountain : icons and transformations of pilgrimage at the Monastery of St Catherine at Mount Sinai -- Jaś Elsner and Gerhard Wolf
Excavations on the holy summit (Jebel Mūsā) at Mount Sinai : preliminary remarks on the Justinianic Basilica -- Sophia Kalopissi-Verti and Maria Panayotidi
The architecture of the Justinianic Basilica on the holy summit -- Petros Koufopoulos and Marina Myriantheos-Koufopoulou
Painted skins : the illusions and realities of architectural polychromy, Sinai and Egypt -- Elizabeth Bolman
Liturgy --
Worship on Sinai in the first Christian millennium : glimpses of a lost world -- Robert F Taft
Late Byzantine cathedral liturgy and the Service of the Furnace -- Alexander Lingas
Manuscript --
Manuscript production on Mount Sinai from the tenth to the thirteenth century -- Nancy P. Ševčenko
Sinai, MS gr. 2: Exploring the significance of a Sinai manuscript -- Hieromonk Justin Sinaites
Icon --
Visualizing the divine : an Early Byzantine icon of the 'Ancient of Days' at Mount Sinai -- Kathleen Corrigan
Regarding prayer : contemplating an icon of John the Forerunner -- Charles Barber
Archive and Atelier : Sinai and the case of the narrative icon -- Paroma Chatterjee
Mural and icon painting at Sinai in the thirteenth century -- Georgi R. Parpulov
Sinai, Acre, Tripoli, and the 'backwash from the Levant' : where did the icon painters work? -- Rebecca W. Corrie
Sinai and Cyprus : holy mountain, holy isle -- Annemarie Weyl Carr
Space --
Three East Slavic pilgrims at Sinai -- translated by Georgi R. Parpulov
Turning holy mountains into ladders to Heaven : overlapping topographies and poetics of space in Post-Byzantine sacred engravings of Mount Sinai and Mount Athos -- Veronica Della Dora
On the painted ancestry of Domenikos Theotokopoulos's sacred landscapes of Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St Catherine -- Cristina Stancioiu.
Edition Notes
"The papers of this volume derive from the symposium "Icons of Sinai", held at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the University of California, Los Angeles, on 26-27 January 2007"--P. [xxvii].
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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