Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt : a photographic essay / text by Helen C. Evans ; photographs by Bruce White ; with a special introduction by His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai.

Main entry:

Evans, Helen C.

Title & Author:

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt : a photographic essay / text by Helen C. Evans ; photographs by Bruce White ; with a special introduction by His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai.

Publication:

Description:

96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 96).
Introduction / by Damianos of Sinai -- The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine on the God-trodden Mount Sinai / by Helen C. Evans -- Photographic essay / by Bruce White -- The God-Trodden Mount Sinai -- The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine -- The Emperor Justinian's Church -- Icons: Images of the Holy -- Celebrations of Great Feasts of the Church.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1588391094
9781588391094
1588391108 (pbk.)
9781588391100 (pbk.)
0300102798 (Yale University Press)
9780300102796 (Yale University Press)

Subject:

Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)
Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) Pictorial works.
Monastère Sainte-Catherine-du-Sinaï
Monastère Sainte-Catherine-du-Sinaï - Ouvrages illustrés.
Sinaikloster Bildband.
Monastère Sainte-Catherine-du-Sinaï Ouvrages illustrés.
Sinaikloster
Sinaï-klooster.

Form/genre:

Bildband.
Viewbooks.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

White, Bruce, 1962-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231692
Call No.: NA6084.M6 E8 2004
Status: Available

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