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[Mount Catherine / Mount Sinai paper icon.]
1759
View of Mount Catherine and Mount Sinai. Inscription at the top in Greek reads: "Eleō theou Archiepiskopos tou hagiou kai theovadistou horous [sic] Sina Konstantios." Inscription in the top left corner in Latin reads: " ... Sacri Montis Sinai in Arabia Archiepiscopus ... Illustrisse D.D.V.V. ... Hieromonachum nostrum Mercurium humillime presentatur." To the left and right of the central composition there are two explanatory numbered lists, 62 in total, about the events taking place in the picture.
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- Publisher
- [Vienna : s.n.], 1759.
- Language
- Greek
- Subject
- Catherine of Alexandria, Saint—Art
- Moses (Biblical leader)—Art
- Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai)
- Art, Byzantine
- Christian women saints
- Religious art
- Burning bush—Art
- Christian art and symbolism—18th century
- Christianity and art—Orthodox Eastern Church—Pictorial works
- Engraving—18th century
- Prophets
- Saints in art
- Sinai, Mount (Egypt)—Art
- Paper
- Art
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