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Article: Burnt by the son: Ethiopia's sacred art. (The Sacred Art of Ethiopia, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, coins, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, gold crosses, and other antiquities)(includes a related article on the next exhibition at the museum, The Pharaohs, from the Louvre)
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- American Visions
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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Centuries before Europe's conversion to Christianity--centuries in which Celtic, Germanic and Slavic peoples saw the natural world as magical, with trees, birds and thunder possessing ominous spiritual power--Africa gave birth to the world's first Christian state.
Picture in your mind King Ezana, ruler of Axum, who reigns from Ethiopia's northern highlands down to the Red Sea and the port city of Adulis, whose knee bends neither to Rome nor to its great rival, Sassinid Persia. He wears a fringed robe and is adorned with necklace, armlets, bracelets and possibly with finger-rings. His head is covered with a cloth, tied down with a ribbon; or perhaps the occasion is a ...
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Article: CARVING CHRIST EX-USI PROFESSOR EMBRACES SACRED ART ...
Evansville Courier & Press;
January 26, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... on a Catholic campus to start carving sacred art," McNaughton said. "There was interest ... the process to discuss the plans. "Sacred art like this crucifix is made to help parishioners ... woodworkers are not known for creating sacred art. "The technique is a lost art," McNaughton ...
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