Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography

Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of the Byzantine Virgin and Child Hodegetria icon by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters and explores its transformation by the introduction of chrysography on the figure of the Virgin in the Crusader Levant and in Italy.

Author: Jaroslav Folda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/28/2015
Pages: 492
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.10lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781107010239

About the Author
Folda, Jaroslav: - Jaroslav Folda is the N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His major publications include The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Crusader Art in the Holy Land, From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Crusader Art: The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1099-1291 (2008).