Date: 6th c.
Location: St. Catherine's Monastery, Mt. Sinai
Style: Mosaic
Heritage: Byzantine

Here is a detail of Christ's Face from the magnificent mosaic icon of the Transfiguration in the curved apse over the sanctuary of the main church at St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, finished about 550-565 by the command of the Roman Emperor Justinian the Great (527-565). This is a sixth century treasure among the other iconographic and written treasures preserved at the monastery because of its dry climate, its lack of ever being conquered and ransacked, and also its being out of the political sphere of the iconoclastic Byzantine Emperors of the Iconoclastic (or icon-smashing) period from a.d. 726-843.

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