Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy - The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries

Informationen zum Autor Paroma Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research has been supported by a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship, a Samuel H. Kress Travel Fellowship, a Mellon dissertation writing fellowship, a Penn Humanities Forum postdoctoral fellowship, and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. Her work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Art History, Word and Image, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, the Oxford Art Journal and RES: The Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics. Klappentext Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to explore the development and significance of the vita icon. Through the aesthetic and religious history of the vita icon! Paroma Chatterjee investigates the shared problems of the Orthodox East and the Latin West concerning visual representation and the very definition of sanctity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the metaphor of the 'living icon'; 1. The saint in the text; 2. The saint in the image; 3. 'Wrought by the finger of God'; 4. Depicting Francis' secret; Epilogue: Francis in Constantinople.

Product details

• Authors: Paroma Chatterjee, Paroma (University of Michigan Chatterjee, Chatterjee Paroma
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107034969
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03496-9
• No. of pages: 297
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / General, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Medieval style, Religious subjects depicted in art