Paroma Chatterjee: 1 book
The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy
The Vita Image, Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
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...
