Details

Subject(s)

• Art, Byzantine [Browse]
• Religious art [Browse]
• Christian art and symbolism—17th century [Browse]
• Christianity and art—Orthodox Eastern Church—In art [Browse]
• Icons, Byzantine [Browse]
• Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) [Browse]
• Chatzekyriakes [Browse]
• Sinai, Mount (Egypt)—In art [Browse]
• Landscapes—Egypt—Mount Sinai—1699 [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Woodcuts [Browse]

Summary note

Inscription in Greek runs from left to right at the upper part of the print: "To theovadēston oros tou Sēna." Below the main scene, in 6 columns, there is a numbered list (from 1 to 56) of the events taking place in the print. In the last column, inscription in capital letters states: "Cahtzē Kirgēakis / Vourliotis Sēnaitēs / eneti - 1699: minē Iouliou." In the far right, next to the last column, there is another tiny column with the inscription: "Hiero/mo/nach/ou Dio/nē/si(ou) hē ... ." At the right corner below the main scene, a four-line inscription in Slavonic (?) is enclosed by a roughly square frame: "Hierodiakon Nikodēm ... ."

Notes

• Title from print.
• Medium: Woodcuts, Hand-coloring
• Paper icon depicting a bird's-eye view of Mount Sinai, including 56 scenes. The main composition of the print represents the Saint Catherine Monastery, the dormition of Saint Catherine, and Moses receiving God's Law on Mount Sinai, divided into two symmetrical parts. To the upper left, predominates a scene of the Old Testament where Moses, according to the Book of Exodus, ascended Mount Sinai to receive the Tables of Law. To the upper right, a scene of New Testament, shows winged angels transporting the relic of the Great Martyr Saint Catherine from Alexandria, Egypt, to the highest mountain, now called Mount Saint Catherine, next to Mount Sinai, while a dove who carries a ring in his beak flys away from the Mountain.

Language note

Greek.

Source acquisition

Gift of Theodore Theodorou to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University Library, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Hellenic Studies at Princeton.

OCLC

1124734504

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