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This article examines a set of six icons preserved at the monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai, Egypt. Four of the panels are calendar icons. The fifth depicts the
Τετάρτη 29 Ιουνίου 2022
Lidova Maria, Martyrs, Prophets, Monks. Calendar Icons in the Collection of St Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai (11th-12th centuries)
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The author discusses four groups of Byzantine calendar icons kept in the collection of St Catherine’s monastery at Mt Sinai, each differing from the others according to format, number of panels, and in its
Chichinadze Nina, Representing Identities. The Icon of Ioane Tokhabi from Sinai
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The article focuses on identities represented on late 11th - early 12th century painted icon incorporating the image of donor and painter with representation of the Christological cycle and images of the Virgin. Iconographic program of the panel together with bilingual Greek-Georgian inscriptions constructs the self-identity of the Georgian priest-monk Ioane Tokhabi. Various visual and textual markers reveal the national, cultural, and religious identity of the donor. The icon demonstrates that the manifestation of the identities was one of the concerns for creators and/or commissioners of objects of devotional art.
Chichinadze Nina, The Artistic Systems of the Georgian Painted Icons of the Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai
Σάββατο 4 Ιουνίου 2022
Δευτέρα 30 Μαΐου 2022
Τετάρτη 11 Μαΐου 2022
Τρίτη 3 Μαΐου 2022
Τρίτη 26 Απριλίου 2022
Κυριακή 26 Δεκεμβρίου 2021
Δευτέρα 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2021
Σάββατο 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2021
Στρατηγόπουλος Δημοσθένης, Νεκταρίου Πατριάρχου Ιεροσολύμων άγνωστα τροπάρια στην αγία Αικατερίνα
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Nectarius patriarch of Jerusalem was a monk of Sinai Monastery between the years 1620 and 1661. That period he wrote forty eight troparia on Saint Catherine witch were sung when the monks opened her larnax. These troparia are delivered by codex Sinaiticus gr. 681 and were unknown until today.
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