Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai Edited by Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai holds the most important collection of Byzantine icons in the world. This catalogue features forty-three of these rare and exquisite images, along with six manuscripts and other liturgical objects included in the exhibition Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: icons from Sinai, held at the Getty Museum November 14, 2006, to March 4, 2007. Essays by the editors, Robert S. Nelson and Kristen M. Collins, and by Thomas F. Mathews, David Jacoby, and Father Justin Sinaites explore the icons' status as holy object, ways in which the icon sanctified the place of worship, and the monks' quest for the holy. The essays also reveal how pilgrimage brought the remote Greek Orthodox monastery, isolated at the base of Mount Sinai in the Egyptian desert, into contact with the outside world, resulting in aesthetic exchanges between the monastery and Coptic, Crusader, and Islamic art, as well as the art of Western Europe. Robert S. Nelson is Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art at Yale University and author of Hagia Sophia 1850-1950: Holy Wisdom Modern Monument. Kristen M. Collins is assistant curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Thomas F. Mathews, former professor of Byzantine art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, now lives and works in Paris. David Jacoby is emeritus professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Father Justin Sinaites is a monk and priest and serves as librarian at the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine at Sinai.