The living icon in Byzantium and Italy : the vita image, eleventh to thirteenth centuries /

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 c...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Chatterjee, Paroma, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Vita icons > Byzantine Empire. Vita icons > Italy. ART > General.