Palladas was a monk associated with Saint Catherine's sacred monastery in Egypt also known as Mount Sinai.

Ieremias was a Sinaitic monk because of his association with Saint Catherine's monastery on Mount Sinai.

Palladas finished one of the most influential paintings of the figure for the iconostasis of Saint Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai, Egypt.

During the same period, another Sinaitic monk named Theocharis Silvestros painted several versions of the prototype.

Countless artists copied the work namely, Emmanuel Lambardos, Victor and Philotheos Skoufos.

It was part of a large group of paintings completed for the iconostasis of Saint Catherine's Monastery in Mount Sinai, Egypt.

The princess sits in a position similar to Palladas's earlier work depicting Saint Catherine.

[7] Palladas integrates Michael Damaskinos's Virgin of the Burning Bush in the middle ground.

The artist clearly attempts to escape the traditional maniera greca and incorporates the prevalent Cretan style.

Books, square and compasses, a gnomon, an inkwell with quills, and an astrolabe are all present.

It follows the traditional Greek Italian Byzantine style where the stole is draped over her left arm.

Historian Flora Vafea wrote a detailed analysis of the painting in her paper entitled The Astronomical Instruments in Saint Catherine’s iconography at the Holy Monastery of Sinai.

In front of the spiked wheel on top of two books, the painter adds an astronomical instrument.

There are unequal divisions of ecliptic symbols longer at the center and shorter at the sides.

The depiction of the stars and the five circles on the celestial globes was observed by astronomers Geminus and Leontios Mechanikos.

A greek phrase is written on the outer circle outlining the different phases of the sun.

His contemporaries added an armillary sphere or a celestial globe in their versions of his painting.