Название: The living icon in Byzantinium and Italy: the vita image, eleventh to thirteenth centuries
Автор: Chatterjee, Paroma
Издательство: New York: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2014
ISBN: 1107034965; 9781107034969
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 297
Размер: 17 mb
Язык: English
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.