Byzantine art and Italian panel painting : the Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the art of chrysography / Jaroslav Folda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ; with a contribution by Lucy J. Wrapson, University of Cambridge
xxxi, 411 pages, 52 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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"The Virgin and Child Hodegetria was a widely venerated Byzantine image depicting the Virgin holding and pointing to her son as the way to salvation. In this book, Jaroslav Folda traces the appropriation of this image by thirteenth-century Crusader and central Italian painters, where the Virgin Mary is transformed from the human mother of god, the Theotokos, of Byzantine icons, to the resplendent Madonna radiant in her heavenly home with Christ and the angels"-- Provided by publisher
