The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art
Subtitle: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries
Contributors: Isabel Boavida (Co-editor); Manuel João Ramos (Editor)
Edition: ASHGATE PUBLISHERS edition
Publisher: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780754650379
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Religious subjects depicted in art; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Art & Art Instruction; 17th century; History: World; History; Ethiopia; Portugal; Art, Ethiopian; African; 16th century; Africa - South - South Africa; Europe - General; Christian art and symbolism; Congresses
First sentence: After the death of Emperor Galawdewos while fighting against the Muslim emirate of Adal in 1559, his brother, Emperor Minas (1559-63), took the revolutionary step of abandoning Sawa, then threatened by Oromo incursions, and established his royal capital at Imfraz, in the mountains overlooking Lake Tana.