Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai [Anne Rice's Personal Copy]

Robert S. Nelson, Kristen M. Collins

J. Paul Gettty Museum, 2006. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine / Dust Jacket Near Fine with very minor shelf wear. Item #5249
ISBN: 0964170639

All profits from the sale of this item will be donated locally for community resilience. Unless otherwise arranged, this item is available for media mail shipping. A third printing of this collection of peer-reviewed essays, featuring 236 color plates and 36 black-and-white illustrations, exploring the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai and the remarkable collection of Byzantine icons housed there. Book and dust jacket show only the faintest traces of shelf wear, else Fine. Oversized. Printed in Italy.

Not signed by Anne Rice or the author but from the personal library of author Anne Rice, with a brief inscription, "To Anne," on the title page. A unique association copy of this publication.


Anne Rice, widely known for her Vampire Chronicles, also authored several novels set in the Byzantine era and focused on the historical Christ.

Founded by order of Emperor Justinian in the 6th century, St. Catherine's Monastery grew into a compound that included monks’ cells, chapels, pilgrims’ hostels, and a mosque. The architectural history of the monastery is as intricate as the history of the icons displayed within, with architectural changes since the 6th century.

In an essay published by the American Philosophical Society (October 15, 1952), Professor of Medieval History Aziz S. Atiya writes of the monastery’s ancient legacy:“In Mount Sinai, the Byzantine rule has left its most enduring monument in this Convent, a gem which cannot be overlooked by the devout traveler and pilgrim."

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