VIII. Seeing is believing: The "Loca Sancta" and the Arts of Pilgrimage
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VIII. Seeing is believing: The "Loca Sancta" and the Arts of Pilgrimage InSitu | Flashcards | Help
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| Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai, Egypt, rebuilt by Justinian, ca. 543-565 | |
| General view of site |
| General view of fortified enclosure |
| Plan of monastery |
| General view of interior |
| General view of apse and triumphal arch |
| Apse mosaic showing Transfiguration |
| Detail of Christ |
| Detail of Peter |
| Triumphal arch mosaic: Moses before the Burning Bush |
| Moses receiving the Ten Commandments |
| Reliquary Box from the Sancta Sanctorum (now Vatican Museums, Rome), 6th-7th c. | |
| General view |
| Lid |
| Detail of Women at Tomb |
| Detail of Nativity |
| Pewter Pilgrim's ampulla from Holy Land, 6th-7th century (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C.), Back showing Women at Tomb |
| Pewter Pilgrim's ampulla showing Crucifixion with knelling pilgrims and Women at Tomb (Monza Cathedral Treasury, ampulla 13 ) |
| Pewter Pilgrim's ampulla showing Locus Sanctus scenes (Monza Cathedral Treasury, ampulla 2) |
| Qal'at Sim'an, Shrine of Symeon the Stylite the Elder, ca 480-490 | |
| Plan |
| General view from northeast |
| Reconstruction view |
| Votive plaque silver gilt of Symeon Stylites the Elder, 6th century (Paris, Musée du Louvre) |
| Terra-cotta Pilgrim's Token of Symeon Stylites the Elder, 6th - 7th century (Berlin, Museum für Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunst-Staatliche Museen) |
| Basilica of Hagios Demetrios, Thessaloniki, architecture, ca. 500; mosaics, ca. 620 | |
| General view of interior |
| Plan |
| Ciborium shrine of St. Demetrios |
| Mosaic of Demetrios embracing eparch and Bishop of Thessaloniki |
| Mosaic of Demetrios and Children |
| Mosaic of Demetrios before the Ciborium |