Jaroslav Folda

N. Ferebee Taylor Professor Emeritus of the History of Art

112a Hanes Art Center 
Campus Box 3405 
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3405
919-260-6041 (work phone)
919-918-3358 (home phone)
jfolda@email.unc.edu

AB, Princeton University, 1962
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1968

Research and Teaching Interests

Meaning and content in Medieval art from c. 300 to the end of the 15th century with emphasis on works of art in their historical context.

Medieval figural art with special emphasis on manuscript illumination, icons, panel painting, metalwork and sculpture.

Artistic interchange and cultural interpenetration in the Medieval Mediterranean World, 1100 to 1300.

The art and history of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1095 - 1291.

Publications

BOOKS:

Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre: 1275-1291, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976, 231 pp., 299 pls.

(contributor, pp. 253-288, 81 pls., and assisting editor, pp. 69-354) K.M. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, vol. IV, Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977.

(editor) Crusader Art in the Twelfth Century, British Archaeological Reports, International Series, vol. 152, Oxford, 1982, 269 pp.

(chair, editorial committee) Hugo Buchthal, Art of the Mediterranean World: A.D. 100 to 1400, Washington, D.C., 1982, 207 pp., 367 pls.

The Nazareth Capitals and the Crusader Shrine of the Annunciation, College Art Association Monographs, XLII, University Park and London: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986, 101 pp., 77 pls.

The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098-1187, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xxx + 672 pp., 41 color pls., 735 halftones. In 1999 the Medieval Academy of America awarded Professor Folda the Haskins Medal for this book.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES:

Essay and entries in, The Glory of Byzantium, ed. H.C. Evans and W.D. Wixom, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997: essay, "Crusader Art," pp. 388-391, entries 258-262, pp. 392-397, entry 264, pp. 398-399, entry 318, p. 482, entry 332, pp. 496-497.

Essay, "The Crusader Period and the Church of Saint Anne at Sepphoris," in Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture, ed. R.M. Nagy, et al., The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C. 1997, pp. 100-107.

Essay, "Les Manuscrits enluminés dans les états de la Terre Sainte," Les Croisades, L'Orient et l'Occident d'Urbain II à Saint Louis: 1096-1270, ed. M. Rey-Delqué, Milan and Toulouse: Electa, 1997, pp. 299-305 (published in both a French and an Italian language edition).

Essay and entries in, In Terrasanta, Dalla Crociata ala Custodia dei Luoghi Santi, ed. M. Piccirillo, OFM, Milan, Palazzo Reale: SkiraArtifice, 2000, pp. 35-43, 102, 106, 241, 248, 249.

ARTICLES:

"The Fourth Crusade, 1201-1203: Some Reconsiderations," Byzantinoslavica, 26 (1965), pp. 277-290.

"Two Thirteenth-Century Manuscripts of Crusader Legal Texts from St.-Jean d'Acre," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LVII (1994), pp. 241-252.

"Art in the Latin East: 1098-1291," Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, J. Riley-Smith, ed., Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 141-159.

"The Kahn and Mellon Madonnas: Icon or Altarpiece?," Byzantine East, Latin West: Art-Historical Studies in Honor of Kurt Weitzmann, C. Moss, et al., eds., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 501-510.

"Crusader Art in the Kingdom of Cyprus, 1275-1291, Reflections on the State of the Question," Cyprus and the Crusades, N. Coureas and J.Riley-Smith, eds., Nicosia: Cyprus Research Center, 1995, 209-237.

"The Hospitaller Master in Paris and Acre: Some Reconsiderations in Light of New Evidence," Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 54 (1996), pp. 51-59, 269-272.

"Crusader Art, A Multicultural Phenomenon: Historiographical Reflections," Autour de la Première Croisade, M. Balard, ed., Série Byzantina Sorbonensia, 14, Paris, Publ. de la Sorbonne, 1996, pp. 609-615.

"Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS lat. 5334 and the Origins of the Hospitaller Master," Montjoie: Studies in Crusade History in Honour of Hans Eberhard Mayer, B.Z. Kedar, J. Riley-Smith, R. Hiestand, eds., London: Variorum, 1997, pp. 177-187.

"Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre through the Eyes of Crusader Pilgrims," Jewish Art, 23/24 (1997/1998), pp. 158-164.

"The South Transept Façade of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: An Aspect of Rebuilding Zion," The Crusades and Their Sources: Studies Presented to Bernard Hamilton, ed. J.France, London: Ashgate, 1998, pp. 239-257.

"Art in the Latin East, 1098-1291," Oxford History of the Crusades, ed. J. Riley-Smith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 138-154.

Courses Taught

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE COURSES:

• Art 35: Medieval Art and Architecture, 3rd century to c. 1400
• Art 52: Medieval Art in Western Europe
• Art 82: Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1095-1291
• Art 112: Topics in the Art of the High Middle Ages, 11th - 14th Centuries: recent topics have been, Gothic Portal Sculpture, 1140 - 1300; Early Gothic Painting, 1140 - 1270
• Art 153: History of the Illuminated Book: developments in the illustrations of roll and codex, c. 300 - 1400
• Art 154: Northern European Art: 1300 - 1500: Painting and sculpture in France, England, the Netherlands Germany and Bohemia during the Late Middle Ages
• Art 199: Readings in the History of Art: Topic in the spring 1997: Women in the Middle Ages; Topic in the spring 2000: East-West Problems: Artistic Interaction in the 13th Century
• Art 301: Graduate Methods for the Study of Medieval Art [spring 1998]

GRADUATE SEMINARS: [Recent Topics in Art 350]

• Fall 1989: The Cotton Genesis and Its Impact on Western European Painting
• Fall 1990: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
• Fall 1991: Roman and Early Medieval Historical Narrative: The Column of Trajan and the Bayeux Tapestry (taught jointly with Dr. G. Koeppel (Classics)
• Spring 1992: Icon and Altarpiece in the 13th Century Mediterranean World
• Spring 1993: Problems of Patronage in Manuscript Illumination, 1100-1300
• Fall 1993: Crusader Art in Acre and Cyprus, 1250-1300
• Fall 1994: Holy Images of the Virgin and Child in the 13th Century
• Fall 1995: The "Hospitaller Master" and Crusader Painting at St.-Jean d'Acre, c. 12770-1291
• Spring 1997: Exemplum--Medieval Model Books, c. 1100-c.1300
• Spring 1998: Art in the Reign of King Louis IX, East and West: 1244-1254
• Fall 1999: Studies in the Interpretation of Crusader Style in the 13th Century
• Fall 2000: Problems in the Illustration of Biblical Manuscripts, East and West