The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Icons, Volume One: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century

Weitzmann, Kurt

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, white & illus. dust jacket, 107 text pp. followed by 84 BW and 38 color plate pages; plus 36 BW plates within text. G (Has aged lightly overall; dj has top edge tanning; book block has some foxing along edge; binding have soiling or foxing; text pages are clear; illus. pages are tanning along outer edges; texts and illus. themselves are good.). Item #156407
ISBN: 0691035431

"The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai contains the world's richester collection of Byzantine icons. ... These extraordinarily beautiful paintings, numbering more than 2,000, include works from every century and for some periods the only extant examples. ... This volume presents icons from the sixth to the tenth centuries, a period from which no other examples have survived. It includes a considerable number from the pre-iconoclastic period before A.D. 726 and the four important icons brought to Russia from Sinai in the nineteenth century. The publication of this spectacular collection, beginning with the present volume, will form the cornerstone of any future history of icon painting." (dj).