Jaroslav Folda

Who is Jaroslav Folda?

Jaroslav Thayer Folda III is a medievalist, in which field he is a Haskins Medal winner; he is a scholar in the history of the Art of the Crusades and the N. Ferebee Taylor Professor of the History of Art at the University of North Carolina. His area of interest for teaching and research is the art of the High Middle Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean World. His area of study includes 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.

Folda's 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.

His recent publications include The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1098 - 1187, and articles such as "Icon to Altarpiece in the Frankish East: Images of the Virgin and Child Enthroned," in Italian Panel Painting of the Duecento and Trecento, ed. V.M.