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02598aam a2200361 i 4500 001 E90D64C2EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140603010131 008 130730s2014 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013030663 020 $a 1107034965 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107034969 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)856861184 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-it--- $a e-it--- 050 00 $a N8189.B9 $b C53 2014 082 00 $a 704.9/4863 $2 23 084 $a ART000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Chatterjee, Paroma, $d 1978- $e author. 245 14 $a The living icon in Byzantium and Italy : $b the vita image, eleventh to thirteenth centuries / $c Paroma Chatterjee. 264 1 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a xv, 268 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; $c 26 cm 520 $a "Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Vita icons $z Byzantine Empire. 650 0 $a Vita icons $z Italy. 650 7 $a ART / General. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211032613.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E90D64C2EAE411E387729F9EDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search