Where did it come from? On developments in icon painting

Among the most complex problems in medieval painting is the nearly simultaneous emergence of the so-called maniera greca in 13th-century Tuscany and Umbria, and similar styles in the Crusader states and the Byzantine Empire and its client states, including Armenian Cilicia—a field which has come to maturity in the current generation of scholars. Jaroslav Folda has spent much of his scholarly life working at this intersection of Mediterranean visual cultures. In Byzantine Art and Italian P