عنوان

The living icon in Byzantium and Italy :

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1107034965 (hardback)

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9781107034969 (hardback)

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Title Proper

The living icon in Byzantium and Italy :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the vita image, eleventh to thirteenth centuries /

First Statement of Responsibility

Paroma Chatterjee

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xv, 268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

26 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

The metaphor of the 'living icon' -- The saint in the text -- The saint in the image -- 'Wrought by the finger of God' -- Depicting Francis' secret -- Epilogue : Francis in Constantinople

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Text of Note

"Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond"--

Text of Note

"Living Icons 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. Through the lens of this format, 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"--

Vita icons-- Byzantine Empire

Vita icons-- Italy

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Edition

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Book number

Chatterjee, Paroma,1978-

Date of Transaction

20141129044445.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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