Jaroslav Folda

N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art
jfolda@email.unc.edu

My area of interest for teaching and research is the art of the High Middle Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean World. I study Medieval Manuscript Illumination, Medieval Icon and Panel Painting, and Medieval Sculpture from the 11th century to the 15th century, and the Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098 - 1291. My approach is art in historical context in which the work of art is examined in terms of form and function, meaning and content, along with what we can know about the patron, the artist, the workshop process by which it was produced, and the audience for whom it was intended.

My recent publications include The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098 - 1187, Cambridge University Press, 1995, and articles such as "Icon to Altarpiece in the Frankish East: Images of the Virgin and Child Enthroned," Italian Panel Painting of the Duecento and Trecento," ed. V.M. Schmidt, Symposium Papers XXXVIII, Studies in the History of Art, 61 (2002), pp. 122-145, entries on Crusader Icons in the exhibition catalogue, Byzantium: Faith and Power, 1261 - 1557, ed. H.Evans, et al., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, and my new book is entitled, Crusader Art in the Holy Land, 1187 - 1291,Cambridge University Press, 2005.

I am currently looking into the issue of golden highlighting, what is called chrysography, with regard to its origins, development, and distinctive characteristics in Byzantine and Crusader icon painting and Italian panel painting, mainly in the 13th century.

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