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Book SynopsisThe first International Conference on Ethiopian art, convened by Dr. Richard Pankhurst in 1986, produced Proceedings dedicated to Ethiopian art, spanning over two millennia. The volume includes papers on Ethiopian painting (manuscript illuminations and murals), metalwork, architecture, and folk art.
Table of ContentsOpening address by Professor Stanislaw Chojnacki
B. Playne: Reflections on the Decoration of Bieta Mariam, Lalibela
M. Heldman: An Ewostathian Style and the Gunda Gunde Style in Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Manuscript Illumination
E. Balicka-Witakowska: The Iconography of the Deposition in Ethiopian Painting
P. Scholz: Bemerkungen zur Ikonologie der sog. "Vier apokalyptischen Wesen" an dem Steinaltar der Dreifaltigkeitskapelle zu Lalibela
P. Henze: Lake Zway - Southern Christian Outpost and Repository of Medieval Ethiopian Art
B. Juel-Jensen: An Aksumite Survival in Late Medieval Ethiopian Miniatures
S. Tedeschi: Le portrait inédit du negus Lebnä-Dengel ayant appartenu à l'historien Paolo Giovio
D. Spencer: The Discovery of Brancaleon's Paintings
S. Uhlig: Funktion und Bedeutung der ornamente in äthiopischen Kodizes
C. Perczel: Ethiopian Illuminated ornament
V. Nersessian: The Ethiopian Manuscript Collection in the British Library
W. Raunig: Ethiopian Folk Art Painting
G. Kidane: Four Traditional Ethiopian Painters and their Life Histories
R. Pankhurst: The Battle of Adwa (1896) as Depicted by Traditional Ethiopian Artists
G. Fisseha: The Hunt in Ethiopian Folk Art
E. Moore: Ethiopian Crosses from the 12th to the 16th Century
E. Hecht: The Hand-Cross Collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies: A Project Report
D. Buxton: The Attempt to Reconstruct Axumite Buildings
L. Berry: Gondar-Style Architecture and its Royal Patrons
S. Wolde: The Preservation and Conservation of Art Works in Present-Day Ethiopia
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