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

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By (author): Paroma Chatterjee

This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book offers a compelling account of how this type of image embodied and challenged the prevailing structures of vision, representation and sanctity in Byzantium and among the Franciscans in Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Paroma Chatterjee uncovers the complexities of the philosophical and theological issues that had long engaged both the medieval East and West, such as the fraught relations between words and images, relics and icons, a representation and its subject, and the very nature of holy presence. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 810g
  • Dimensions: 188 x 262mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Mar 2014
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781107034969

About Paroma Chatterjee

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.

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