Africa and Byzantium
Book - 2023
"Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330-1453), but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world. Bringing together a range of masterworks--from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, paintings, and religious manuscripts--this exhibition recounts Africa's central role in international networks of trade and cultural exchange. With artworks rarely or never before seen in public, Africa & Byzantium sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of medieval Africa. This long-overdue exhibitio...n highlights how the continent contributed to the development of the premodern world and offers a more complete history of the vibrant multiethnic societies of north and east Africa that shaped the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
[2023]
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- Item Description
- Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 19, 2023-March 3, 2024; and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, April 14-July 21, 2024.
With contributions by Moèz Achour, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Michelle Al-Ferzly, Roger S. Bagnall, Vince L. Bantu, Fathi Bejaoui, Nejib Ben Lazreg, Deniz Beyazit, Elizabeth S. Bolman, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Stephanie Caruso, Silvia A. Centeno, Kathrin Colburn, Emilia Cortes, Stephen J. Davis, Marie-Laure Derat, Sarah F. Derbew, Eyob Derillo, Helen C. Evans, Mary K. Farag, Ariel J. Fein, Helina Gebremedhen, Jacopo Gnisci, Father Abate Gobena, Pratima Gopalakrishnan, Emmanuel Iduma, Liz James, Hieromonk Justin of Sinia, Jessica L. Lamont, Jacqueline Lombard, Faouzi Mahfoudh, Dorothy Mahon, Tsedaye Makonnen, Annissa Malvoisin, C. Griffith Mann, Irene Soto Marín, Sigrid Mirabaud, Sailakshmi Ramgopal, Naila Razzaq, Giovanni R. Ruffini, Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska, Thelma K. Thomas, Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Arielle Winnik, Felege-Selam Yirga. - Physical Description
- 351 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-344) and index.
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- 9781588397713
- Foreword
- Contributors to the catalogue
- Lenders to the exhibition
- Note to the reader
- Timeline
- 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 transformations 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 / Andrea 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 Marin
- Black Africans of the Mediterranean. Representations of black people in Mediterranean antiquity / Sarah F. Derbew ; Dark-skinned figures in late antiquity 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 Faras 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 Anfonyos, 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.