Jaroslav Folda

Family

Education

• A.B. Princeton University, 1962.
• Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University, 1968.
• N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art, University of North Carolina, 1996 -.

  Research and teaching interests

• Meaning and content in medieval art from c. 300 to c. 1500, 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
• The art and history of the crusaders in the Holy Land, 1095–1291
• Methodology for the study of medieval art

  Works

• Crusader Manuscript Illumination at Saint-Jean d'Acre: 1275–1291.
• K.M. Setton, ed., A History of the Crusades, vol. IV, H.W. Hazard, ed., The Art and Architecture of the Crusader States.
• Crusader Art in the Twelfth Century, British Archeological Reports, International Series, vol. 152.
• Hugo Buchthal, Art of the Mediterranean World: A.D. 100 to 1400.
• The Nazareth Capitals and the Crusader Shrine of the Annunciation, College Art Association Monograph Series, vol. XLII.
• The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1098–1187, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Crusader Art in the Holy Land: from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Crusader Art: The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1099–1291, Aldershot and Burlington: Lund Humphries, 2008.

• The Crusader Period and the Church of Saint Anne at Sepphoris, in Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture, Rebecca M. Nagy, et al., eds., North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1996, pp. 101–107.
• Crusader Art, in: ', H.C. Evans and W.D. Wixom, eds., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997, pp. 388–391, and entries, nos. 258-262.
• 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, M. Rey-Delqué, ed., Milan and Toulouse: Electa, 1997, pp. 299–305.
• L'Arte dei Crociati e il Pellegrinaggio nei Luoghi Santi, in: Terrasanta, Dalla Crociata ala Custodia dei Luoghi Santi, ed. M. Piccirillo, OFM, Milan, Palazzo Reale: Skira Artifice, 2000, pp. 35–43, and entries on pp. 102, 106, 241, 248, 249.
• Entries on eight crusader icons, in: ', ed. Helen C. Evans, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/New Haven and London: Yale University Press, : pp. 355–356, 357-358, 365-366, 374, 374-375, 376, 377, 379-381.
• 2 essays, an introduction and 5 catalogue entries for the Mannheim exhibition catalogue: Saladin und die Kreuzfahrer, eds. A. Wieczorek, et al., Mannheim and Mainz, 2005, pp. 176–189, 204-215 and pp. 393–394, 404-407.