An earlier version of this article incorrectly said the Byzantine Empire, Armenia, Coptic Egypt and Ethiopia all shared a common Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The last three churches are ...

Her use of mirrors also multiplies the view of the towers and their cross cutouts. “It looks like there are a million Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox crosses and a million light towers,” she says.

Object Details Author Kennedy, Jean 1919-1991 Smithsonian Libraries African Art Index Project DSI Notes Documents the artistic continuities between ancient Ethiopian Orthodox traditions and modern ...

Installation view of Ethiopia at the Crossroads at the Walters Art Museum. Pictured: 20th-century liturgical dress and umbrella from the Peabody Essex Museum (photo Nandini Pandey/ Hyperallergic ).

Looking from the historical perspective, art activities were started before the introduction of Christianity. At that time sculpture did exist. Due to the contact with foreign countries painting ...

The Walters Museum of Art, which holds one of the most extensive collections of Ethiopian art outside of Ethiopia, is hosting a major US exhibition of 1,750 years of art from the Horn of Africa.

But “primitive” art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of “high culture,” and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were ...

To Cairo and the Coptic pope, Patriarch Markarius III, the gentle Negus sent a rough message: ... ETHIOPIA: Coptic Quarrel; ETHIOPIA: Coptic Quarrel. 2 minute read. TIME. May 29, 1944 12:00 AM GMT-4.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has announced the exhibition “Tsedaye Makonnen—Sanctuary.”Opening Dec. 13 and remaining an ongoing display, the exhibition features seven sculptures by ...

These Seven Stunning Towers Memorialize Lost Black Lives With Mirrors, Light and Ethiopian Cross Designs At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a ...