Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt
Subtitle: A Photographic Essay
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781588391100
Subjects: Institutions & Organizations; Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai); Pictorial works; Religion; Religion - Missions; Saint Catherine (Monastery : M
First sentence: Approaching the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine on the God-trodden Mount Sinai, the desert landscape yields to low mountains and then to higher and higher ridges.
Description: "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.