Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Saint Catherine.
Call Number
D West 43/GC096/Box 02/Normal/Saint Catherine Monastery GA 2014.00010
Identifier
ark:/88435/w9505898x
Publisher
Lwow, Poland, 1698.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1698
Extent
1 print : hand-colored woodcut ; print 36.5 x 28.8 cm, sheet 43.3 x 32.8 cm.
Source Acquisition
Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
References
Papastratou, Dore. Paper Icons: Greek Orthodox Religious Engravings, 1665-1899. Athens: Papastratos; Recklinghausen: A. Bongers, 1990. [Marquand Library Oversize NE655.2 .P3713 1990q]
Papastratou 401
Deluga, Waldemar and Zych, Iwona. Greek Church Prints, Print Quarterly 19, no. 2 (June 2002): pp. 123-135.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Woodcuts, Hand-coloring
Depiction: Icon representing St. Catherine enthroned with the symbols of her wisdom and martyrdom. Above St. Catherine is a winged angel holding an unfolded scroll.
Among the earliest known religious prints produced for circulation in the Orthodox East. Earliest known paper icon of Saint Catherine.
Inscribed in plate: Scroll, " Chaire pansophe parthene Ekaterina"; Bottom of scene, "Ho Nikodemos / hygran di / odeusas / Echi to son pneuma ouranos - soma de to theion - tethesauriste en Syna haima martireou / en Alexandroupolis sophe Aikaterina soze t.

Discovery Information

Subject
Art, Byzantine
Religious art
Christian art and symbolism—17th century
Christianity and art—Orthodox Eastern Church—In art
Icons, Byzantine
Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai).
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint—Art
Christian women saints in art
Chatzekyriakes
Martyrs in art
Torture in art
Art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bd8bcf38-3ecc-4d76-8349-b47257bee110/manifest