Holy image, hallowed ground
Subtitle: icons from Sinai
By: edited by Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins
Contributors: Nelson, Robert S., 1947-; Collins, Kristen M; J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780892368556; 9780892368563
Subjects: Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) -- Exhibitions; Icons, Byzantine -- Exhibitions; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine -- Exhibitions; Icons -- Cult -- Egypt -- Sinai, Mount; Icons -- Egypt -- Sinai, Mount -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Icons from Sinai
Notes: Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 14, 2006-Mar. 4, 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-295) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Where God walked and monks pray / Robert S. Nelson; title: Early icons of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai / Thomas F. Mathews; title: The Sinai Codex Theodosianus : manuscript as icon / Father Justin Sinaites; title: Christian pilgrimage to Sinai until the late fifteenth century / David Jacoby; title: Visual piety and institutional identity at Sinai / Kristen M. Collins; title: Holy image : catalogue numbers 1-19; title: Holy space : catalogue numbers 20-41; title: Holy site : catalogue numbers 42-61