Byzantine art and Italian panel painting: the Virgin and Child Hodegetria and the art of chrysography

Abstract

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.

Contents

Introduction: Radiance and Reflection: Chrysography in Byzantine Icons -- The Radiance of Byzantine Icons: The Reinvention of Chrysography after Iconoclasm -- The Introduction of Chrysography on Crusader Icons -- Icon or Altarpiece in the Latin East and Tuscany: Innovative Panels in the Third Quarter of the Thirteenth Century -- Images of the Virgin and Child Hodegetria Enthroned with Chrysography by Central Italian Painters: Coppo di Marcovaldo to Guido da Siena -- Images of the Virgin and Child Hodegetria Enthroned with Chrysography by Central Italian Painters: Duccio and Cimabue -- Techniques for Chrysography in Thirteenth-century Panel Painting / By Dr. Lucy Wrapson, Hamilton Kerr Institute -- Addendum: Chrysography Investigation: Report Summary on XRF Tests conducted at the National Gallery of Art on Three Panels / by Adele Wright.