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Exhibition Review

Icons from Sinai. Los Angeles

06/2007 | 1251 | 149

Pages: 438-440

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Reviewer:

Cormack, Robin (Cormack, Robin)

Subjects

dates:

2000-2009

museums and institutions:

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States

places:

United States / Los Angeles

print:

Mount Sinai

print:

Byzantine art

subjects:

Reviews / Exhibitions / Icons / Illuminated manuscripts / Manuscripts / Byzantine art

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Holy image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai | institution: J. Paul Getty Museum

Illustrations

Non-western art unattributed:

75. St Peter the Apostle. Constantinople. Here dated to the sixth century. Encaustic on panel, 93.4 by 53.7 cm. (The Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Non-western art unattributed:

76. Prophet Elijah fed by a raven. Sinai. Here dated c.1050–1100. Tempera over textile on panel, 129.2 by 69.2 cm. (The Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Non-western art unattributed:

77. St Catherine. Here attributed to Barcelona or Majorca. 1387. Tempera and gold over red bole on panel, 127.3 by 56.5 cm. (The Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Non-western art unattributed:

78. St Gregory of Nazianzus writing his homilies. Constantinople. 1136–55. Tempera and gold on parchment. 33.8 by 27.6 cm. (The Monastery of St Catherine, Sinai, cod.339, fol.4v; exh. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Book Review

The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, Vol.I, From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century

10/1991 | 1063 | 133

Pages: 714

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Reviewer:

Lowden, John (Lowden, John)

Subjects

buildings:

Saint Catherine Monastery at Mount Sinai, Saint Katherine, Egypt

dates:

0900-0999 / 1000-1099 / 1100-1199

places:

Mount Sinai / Saint Katherine (Egypt) / Egypt

subjects:

Art museums / Illuminated manuscripts / Byzantine art / Greek (modern) painting

Reviewed Items

subjects:

The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts, Vol.I, From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century | author: Galavaris, George , author: Weitzmann, Kurt

Book Review

Studies in the Arts at Sinai

11/1983 | 968 | 125

Pages: 696

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Reviewer:

Cormack, Robin (Cormack, Robin)

Subjects

buildings:

Saint Catherine Monastery at Mount Sinai, Saint Katherine, Egypt

places:

Saint Katherine (Egypt) / Egypt / Mount Sinai

subjects:

Byzantine art / Illuminated manuscripts

Reviewed Items

subjects:

Studies in the Arts at Sinai | author: Weitzmann, Kurt

Article

Five Late Byzantine Panels and Greco's Views of Sinai

04/1947 | 529 | 89

Pages: 92-94

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Author:

Rice, D. Talbot (Rice, D. Talbot; Rice, David Talbot; R., D. T.; Rice, David; Talbot-Rice, D.)

Subjects

artists:

El Greco

dates:

1550-1599

places:

Spain / Greece

subjects:

Spanish painting / Influence / Icons / Byzantine art

subjects:

Mount Sinai / Iconography

Illustrations

Attributed works:

A-Mount Sinai. By El Greco. Panel, 41 By 47.8 cm. (Baron Franz von Hatvany, Budapest). Five Late Byzantine Panels and Greco's Views of Sinai

Attributed works:

C-Mount Sinai. By El Greco. Panel, 37 by 24 cm. (Pinacoteca, Modena). Five Late Byzantine Panels and Greco's Views of Sinai

Western art unattributed:

B-Detail of D. Height, 21 cm. Five Late Byzantine Panels and Greco's Views of Sinai

Western art unattributed:

D-The Annunciation; Mount Sinai; The Resurrection; Christ, St. Catherine and St. Mercurios; the Transfiguration. Byzantine Panels, Probably Painted at Salonica about 1600. Overall Size, Including Frame, 30 by 88 cm. (Mr. Wilfrid Blunt). Five Late Byzantine Panels and Greco's Views of Sinai

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