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The icon of Saint Basil in The Menil Collection belongs to a type of icon known as “hagiographical,” “historiated,” or, most commonly, a “vita” icon. This genre first appears in the East around the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, and has a long and happy life in post-Byzantine Greece, in the Balkans, and in Russia; it was transmitted to the West, and even made a startling appearance in 1988 in the Boston Globe . Vita icons do crop up in the East and West at just about the same time, the early thirteenth century, and in the East the surviving Byzantine icons derive almost exclusively from areas subject to considerable Western influence: Sinai, Cyprus, and Kastoria. The painted icons of the thirteenth century quite clearly draw on a decorative repertory already established for the silver-gilt icon treasures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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