The art of highland Christian Ethiopia - with its icon paintings on wood, metal processional crosses, gold coins, and manuscripts - is largely unknown in the West. This book presents a survey of this art from the 4th to the 18th centuries, and addresses the function of art within Ethiopian society.
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The art of highland Christian Ethiopia - with its icon paintings on wood, metal processional crosses, gold coins, and manuscripts - is largely unknown in the West. This book presents a survey of this art from the 4th to the 18th centuries, and addresses the function of art within Ethiopian society.
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Add this copy of African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia to cart. $45.00, good condition, Sold by 802 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Takoma Park, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Yale University Press.
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Near Fine. Book 272 pages with 226 illustrations 121 in color. Illustrated wraps. Edited by Roderick Grierson. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore MD 17 October 1993-9 January 1994. Bibliography.
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Some minor wear. VG. 27x22cm, x, 272 pp., PAPERBACK. Exhibition catalogue. Contents: Dreaming of Jerusalem / Roderick Grierson--Ethiopia revealed: merchants, travelers, and scholars / Richard Pankhurst--Church and state in Ethiopia: the early centuries / Taddesse Tamrat--Church and state in Ethiopia: the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Donald E. Crummey--Ethiopic literature / Getatchew Haile--Ethiopian manuscripts and paleography / Siegbert Uhlig--Linear decoration in Ethiopian manuscripts / Carla Zanotti-Eman--Maryam Seyon: Mary of Zion / Marilyn E. Heldman--Aksumite coinage / Stuart C. Munro-Hay--The heritage of late antiquity; The Zagwe Dynasty: 1137-1270; The Early Solomonic Period: 1270-1527; The Late Solomonic Period: 1540-1769 / Marilyn E. Heldman.
