The painting reflects the visionary tone that dominated north-eastern African Christianity, from Coptic Egypt to the Old Nubian kingdoms and Ethiopia. It is a recurring feature of Ethiopian hagiographic narratives, which often describe it in detailed and flamboyant language, reflecting the complex mixture of Judaic and Greek sources that underlie Ethiopian cosmological notions.
Although contemporary with Jesuit influence in Ethiopia, this striking illuminated manuscript presents a strictly geometricized pictorial style which is entirely devoid of European elements. Its paintings and geometric pages display figures in the traditional orant position, which goes back to Late Antique and Early Christian Egyptian representations of this subject.
Such compositions preserve older Ethiopian motifs and taste, and are associated with a dozen other known works produced in the Lasta area around this time. In the manuscript on display, this bird appears beneath the end of the text for the Friday reading [f. Gospel of Saint John the Evangelist a.
The writing style of this manuscript is consistent with a midth century date. Although there is no colophon providing indications as to the patron, artist or scribe, other manuscripts with a similar hand are associated with the reigns of Lebna Dengel and Galadewos It shows the saint with European features, as indicated by his distinctive goatee beard, which was popular in the Iberian peninsula in the 16th and 17th centuries. Produced by the Stamperia Medicea of Cardinal Ferdinando de Medici, these are the earliest Gospels known to have been printed in the Arabic language.
In accordance with Counter-Reformation policy, these Gospels were widely disseminated in India and the Far East as well as north-eastern Africa, where their illustrations came to influence the development of manuscript painting in Ethiopia. It is unclear when the Arabic Gospels illustrated with the Antonio Tempesta compositions reached Ethiopia, whether during the reign of Susneyos or Fasiladas.
It includes portraits of the Evangelists as well as narrative pictures and, unlike earlier manuscripts, which did not integrate text and image, here, as in the Arabic Gospels, they have been integrated.
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The Ethiopian painter also placed greater emphasis on the depiction of textile patterns — reflecting, perhaps, the great importance of luxury cloth in a kingdom where, until the establishment of a more settled court life in Gondar in , the rulers had been predominantly warrior kings inhabiting a mobile tent court. Written in three columns, a note on f. Double-sided triptych icon Ethiopian, mid 17th century Pigment on gesso-covered wooden boards x mm ht x w when open Private Collection. The earliest triptych icon of the Santa Maria Maggiore known to have been painted in Ethiopia c.
It places Mary and her Child against a flat red background, which emphasizes the monumental quality of these two figures, and only the apostles are portrayed on the lateral wings. Gradually, however, other figures were added to this basic composition, depicted with elongated faces that were already removed from the fuller, rounder figures of the 15th and 16th centuries. In the example shown here, the central panel portrays the Virgin and Child flanked by the archangels Michael and Gabriel, as would become common practice.
Below Gabra Manfas Qeddus, a picture of six apostles signals the heavenly reward that awaits a truly ascetic life. They were taken to the Middle East and North Africa by the Crusaders, where they were translated into Arabic in the middle of the 13th century. By the 16th century there was a recognised canon containing 32 or 33 standard Miracles and their variations — the Tamra Maryam. Gradually many more stories dealing with local topics were added to the original canon.
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The largest collection known to date British Library Or, , dated narrates miracles. The collection shown here includes 61 miracles, although three of the stories are repeated. Twenty-six of them are part of the original canon of 32, and the names and locations in some reveal their Egyptian origin. The eleven full-page illustrations are paintings done in simple flat areas of red, yellow and green, with lines, dots and cross-hatching. Folio 2r shows Mary as the popular icon of Santa Maria Maggiore, now flanked by the archangels Michael and Gabriel and accompanied by two warrior saints — in this case, George on folio 1r and Basilides on the verso — a combination that was to become widespread in icons of this period.
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Tamra Maryam Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ethiopian, midth Century with a separate painting of Mary on parchment dated to the early 16th century — folio r x mm Copied in the reign of King Fasiladas r. The tender proximity between Mary and her Child and the position of their bodies within the pictorial space recall the Byzantine Marian type known as Mother of Tenderness.
During the 16th century in Egypt and Ethiopia, this type became associated with the pilgrimage to the Egyptian site of Kuskam or Qwesqwam in Ethiopic — the place where the Holy Family rested when fleeing to Egypt. Called Marqorewos by his Ethiopian patrons, Brancaleon left a relatively large body of painted work, including a signed collection of the Miracles of Mary, now in Tadbaba Maryam monastery Wollo. The tender inclusion of this image into the later Tamra Maryam provides a touching insight into the profound devotion which coloured royal patronage in Ethiopia, apparently overpowering any self-conscious considerations of fashion, form or style.
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