Date/Time
Date(s) - 17 Apr 2015 until 18 Apr 2015
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Location
Princeton University
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Department of Art & Archaeology Conference
A New Look:
Sinai and Its Icons in Light of the Digitization of the Weitzmann Archive
April 17–18, 2015
The icons at the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai will be the focus of a two-day conference, “A New Look: Sinai and Its Icons in Light of the Digitization of the Weitzmann Archive,” that is being organized by the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, and will take place at Princeton on April 17–18, 2015.
The Department of Art and Archaeology is completing a major initiative to digitize and catalogue a key archive for the study of Byzantine icons—several thousand color images of the icons owned by the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world, with a history that can be traced back over seventeen centuries, Saint Catherine’s possesses an extraordinary collection of icons that date from Late Antiquity to the modern era, illustrating the history of the icon and including many of the most important surviving pre-Iconoclastic panel icons. Kurt Weitzmann, who codirected expeditions to the monastery between 1956 and 1965, had intended that these materials would be published in a series of volumes. Unfortunately, only the first of these (Kurt Weitzmann, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai: The Icons. Volume One: From the Sixth to the Tenth Century. Princeton: Princeton University press, 1976) was ever published. The Department of Art and Archaeology’s archive of color images of the icons taken by the expeditions to Sinai is now being digitized and will be made available for study. The project was funded by a generous grant from Princeton’s David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project.
The annual Weitzmann Lecture will be given on the evening of Friday, April 17, by Professor Robin Cormack, Courtauld Institute of Art, emeritus.
http://www.princeton.edu/visualresources/sinai-and-its-icons/