Ethiopian art
Subtitle: a unique cultural heritage and modern challenge
By: [editors, Walter Raunig, Prinz Asfa-Wossen Asserate.].
Contributors: Orbis Aethiopicus (Organization). Wissenschaftliche Tagung; International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (7th : 2005 : Leipzig, Germany)
Series: Bibliotheca Nubica et Aethiopica -- 10; Orbis Aethiopicus -- Bd. 10; Orbis Aethiopicus (Series) -- Bd. 10.
Publisher: Marie Curie-Skłodowska University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9788322726921
Subjects: Ethiopian Art; Congresses
Notes: "10. Wissenschaftliche Tagung der Gesellschaft Orbis Aethiopicus--in Leipzig vom 24.-26. Juni 2005 in Verbindung mit der 7th International Conference of Ethiopian Art zu Ehren des Nestors des äthiopischen Kunstgeschichte Stanisław Chojnacki."

Selected papers from the international conference held June 24-25, 2005 in the Neuen Rathaus, Leipzig, Germany.

"Bibliographie des Jubilars seit 1990": p. [xi]-xii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions in English, German, and Italian.
Table of contents: title: Programm der 10. wissenschaftlichen Konferenz in Leipzig "Ethiopian art : a unique cultural heritage and modern challenge" vom 24.-26. Juni 2005 (Faksimile); title: New discoveries : the Italianite school reconsidered / Stanisław Chojnacki; title: Art in the service of diplomacy in Shäwa in the early eighteen-forties : "a treaty, and a letter from King Sahlä Sellasé to Queen Victoria" / Rita Pankhurst; title: Ethiopia : a century of diplomatic relations / Rudolf Agstner; title: 100 Jahre deutsch-äthiopische diplomatische Beziehungen /Ursula Gehring-Münzel; title: Confronting the revolution : the discourse of Ethiopian spiritual art in a totalitarian state / Joachim Persson; title: The wall-paintings in the sanctuary of the church of Gännätä Maryam near Lalibäla / Ewa Balicka-Witakowska; title: A new sequence, chronology and evaluation of the Lalibela rock-cut churches / David W. Phillipson; title: Church and monastery treasures of Tigray / Paul B. Henze; title: Two late sixteenth-century Roman engravings from the rock-cut church of Maryam Dengelat (Haremat, Tigray) / Michael Gervers; title: Detached Ethiopian illustrated manuscript folios from Maqdala / Richard Pankhurst; title: Die zeitgenössische Malerei im traditionellen Stil : Berhanu Yemänu und sein Sohn Gētaččäw Berhanu / Elisabeth Biasio; title: White on black : the 'Ethiopians' in The Image of the Black in western art / Dorothea McEwan; title: Wer war der Mohrenkönig in Bethlehem? / Piotr O. Scholz; title: Veneration of icons in the Ethiopian Orthodox church / Christine Chaillot; title: Denominazioni amariche in una ricetta copta per tingere la lana / Magdalena Stoyanova.