Jaroslav Folda

Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting

The Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the Art of Chrysography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of the Byzantine Virgin and Child Hodegetria icon by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 492
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1406g
• ISBN-13: 9781107010239
• ISBN-10: 1107010233
• Artikelnr.: 42584367

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: radiance and reflection: chrysography in Byzantine icons;
2. The radiance of Byzantine icons: the reinvention of chrysography after
iconoclasm; 3. The introduction of chrysography on Crusader icons; 4. Icon
or altarpiece in the Latin East and Tuscany: innovative panels in the third
quarter of the thirteenth century; 5. Images of the Virgin and Child
Hodegetria enthroned with chrysography by central Italian painters: Coppo
di Marcovaldo to Guido da Siena; 6. Images of the Virgin and Child
Hodegetria enthroned with chrysography by central Italian painters: Duccio
and Cimabue; 7. Techniques for chrysography in thirteenth-century panel
painting Lucy J. Wrapson; Addendum: chrysography investigation: report
summary on XRF tests conducted at the National Gallery of Art on three
panels Adele Wright.