Images within Images: Exploring Composite Icons
Teatime Talk with Dorota Zaprzalska, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
The talk focuses on “composite icons”– icons consisting of two panels, usually made at different times, joined together by inserting the smaller icon into a larger panel. It presents the internal diversity of the phenomenon and reinterprets the act of insertion in order to provide a better understanding of this unusual way of reusing icons.
Dorota Zaprzalska is preparing her Ph.D. dissertation at the Doctoral School of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), and she is currently a Forsyth Fellow at the University of Michigan (Department of History of Art). Dorota’s research interests focus on icons, particularly their use and reuse, and her dissertation project examines the phenomenon of so-called “composite icons.” Her research has been supported by the Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grant (2023), the Summer Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks (2023), and the Anita Cecil O’Donovan Fellowship at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (2022).
Image: Icon of Panagia Amirou, Monastery of Panagia Amirou, Cyprus.
Photo credit: Ropertos Georgiou, APAC Labs/STARC, The Cyprus Institute
Teatime Talk with Dorota Zaprzalska, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
The talk focuses on “composite icons”– icons consisting of two panels, usually made at different times, joined together by inserting the smaller icon into a larger panel. It presents the internal diversity of the phenomenon and reinterprets the act of insertion in order to provide a better understanding of this unusual way of reusing icons.
Dorota Zaprzalska is preparing her Ph.D. dissertation at the Doctoral School of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland), and she is currently a Forsyth Fellow at the University of Michigan (Department of History of Art). Dorota’s research interests focus on icons, particularly their use and reuse, and her dissertation project examines the phenomenon of so-called “composite icons.” Her research has been supported by the Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grant (2023), the Summer Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks (2023), and the Anita Cecil O’Donovan Fellowship at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (2022).