View of Mt. Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine  1572

Although the work is unsigned, it can reliably be attributed to Domenicos Theotocopoulos and assigned to his Venetian period. It is a landscape depicting the three highest peaks of Mt Sinai, with groups of pilgrims making their way towards the Monastery of St Catherine, which dominates the scene. Yet more than being an ordinary landscape, the work is suffused with a transc...