| ISBN |
1588397718 (hardcover) |
| 9781588397713 (hardcover) |
| Author |
Achi, Andrea Myers |
| Title |
Africa and Byzantium / Andrea Myers Achi |
| Publisher |
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023 |
| Physical desc. |
351 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 29 cm. |
| Note |
Catalogue of an exhibition held 19 November 2023 to 3 March 2024 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and 14 April to 21 July 2024 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. |
| Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London. |
| Illustrated endpapers. |
| Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-344) and index. |
| Contents |
Boundaries and borders. Africa and Byzantium: a prologue / Andrea Myers Achi -- From Carthage to Aksum: Africa in Late Antiquity. Byzantine Egypt. Late Roman visual culture in Egypt and North Africa / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- Multilingualism in Late Antique Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall -- 'Magic' in Late Antique Egypt / Andrea Myers Achi -- Representations of Egyptian holy men / Thelma K. Thomas -- Early monasticism in Egypt / Arielle Winnik -- Byzantine North Africa. The transformation of Roman North Africa in Late Antiquity / Sailakshmi Ramgopal -- Christian terracotta tiles / Nejib Ben Lazreg -- African red slip ware / Moèz Achour -- North African mosaics / Liz James -- Jewish art in Late Antique Africa / Pratima Gopalakrishnan and Naila Razzaq -- The kingdoms of Nubia. Between Meroë and Rome: Late Antique Nubia / Annissa Malvoisin -- Boxes and bronzes from Late Antique Nubia / Andre Myers Achi -- The Aksumite empire. The Aksumite empire of East Africa: from the Red Sea to Byzantium and beyond / Jessica L. Lamont -- Aksum and Byzantium / Felege-Selam Yirga -- Aksumite coinage / Irene Soto Marín -- Black Africans of the Mediterranean. Representations of Black people in Late Antiquity / Sarah F. Derbew -- Dark-skinned figures in Late Antique Egyptian textiles / Kathrin Colburn -- Bright as the sun: Africa after Byzantium. Post-Byzantine Africa. Bright as the sun: religions, translations, and circulation in post-Byzantine Africa / Vince L. Bantu -- Ifriqiya in the early Islamic period / Michelle Al-Ferzly -- Post-Byzantine Egypt. Egypt after Byzantium: transitions, memory, and cultural preservation / Andrea Myers Achi -- Egyptian monasteries / Stephen J. Davis -- Coptic liturgy / Mary K. Farag -- Sinai as monastic center and destination for pilgrims / Helen C. Evans and Hieromonk Justin of Sinai -- Nubia, Byzantium, and beyond. Nubia and Byzantium / Giovanni R. Ruffini -- Qasr Ibrim / Arielle Winnik -- Conservation efforts at the Farras Cathedral / Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska -- Legacies: Black Byzantium. Ethiopia and Byzantium. Faith on the Nile, faith across the seas: circulation and visual translations in Northern and Eastern Africa / Kristen Windmuller-Luna -- Ethiopia and Byzantium / Jacopo Gnisci -- Ethiopian crosses: art in motion / Jacopo Gnisci and Father Abate Gobena -- The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela: bridging local and global Christian culture / Marie-Laure Derat -- Medieval Islamic inlaid metalwork in the churches of Lalibela / Deniz Beyazit -- Ethiopian icons. Icons in Ethiopia and the advent of panel painting / Claire Bosc-Tiessé and Sigrid Mirabaud -- Artistic renaissance in Christian Ethiopia. The artistic renaissance of early modern Ethiopia / Kristen Windmuller-Luna -- Mural paintings from the Church of Abba Ǝntonyos, Gondar / Claire Bosc-Tiessé -- Ethiopian 'magic' scrolls / Eyob Derillo -- Contemporary reflections. A critical geography / Andrea Myers Achi -- Theo Eshetu's 'The return of the Aksum Obelisk' / Emmanuel Iduma -- Artist's statement / Tsedaye Makonnen -- Imagined futures, imagined pasts / Suzanne Conklin Akbari. |
| Corporate name |
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions |
| Cleveland Museum of Art -- Exhibitions |
| Subject |
Art, African -- History -- To 1500 -- Exhibitions |
| Art, Byzantine -- Exhibitions |
| Art, Byzantine -- Foreign influences -- Exhibitions |
| Art, Ethiopian -- Exhibitions |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Ethiopian -- Exhibitions |
| Āksum (Ethiopia) -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions |
| Added name(s) - Corporate |
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
