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Article: Jesus & Mary in Ethiopia: a distinctive Christian art. (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York City)
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- June 3, 1994
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The first exhibit of Ethiopian Christian art ever to tour the United States (jointly sponsored by participating galleries and InterCultura, Fort Worth, and the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore) is a small but exquisite selection of a hundred pieces, mostly from the Middle Ages. The show is a sampler, illustrating distinct art forms and subjects that developed in a Christian country which was geographically and culturally cut off from the Western world for nearly a thousand years.
The oldest pieces on display are also the smallest. At New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where the tour opened, I saw fourth-century gold and silver ...