Art History Review- Ethiopian Art

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gannata maryam

  • ethiopia

  • sacrifice of isaac narrative

  • carved downwards, out of rock

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illuminated gospel

  • ethiopia

  • portraits of evangelists

  • scenes from old and new testament

  • illuminated manuscript of four gospels

  • 2-d, linear

  • red, green, yellow, orange

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Diptych with Mary and her Son Flanked by Archangels, Apostles and a Saint

  • ethiopia

  • elegant lines, movement

  • humanism

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crown

  • ethiopia

  • regalia

  • looted from fortress

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ge’ez

an ancient Semitic language of Ethiopia, which survives as the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It is the ancestor of the modern Ethiopian languages such as Amharic

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icon

a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches