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Picturing the liturgy: Notes on the iconography of the Holy Women at the Tomb in fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript illumination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2015

Jacopo Gnisci
Jacopo Gnisci*
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SOAS, University of London
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j.gnisci@live.com
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Abstract

Almost five decades ago the late Stanislaw Chojnacki, one of the founding fathers of Ethiopian art history, began the task of describing the themes in Christian Ethiopian painting. Since then, others have contributed to the study of different subjects in Ethiopian art. Yet there are still gaps in our understanding of Ethiopian iconography. The aim of this study is to help fill these gaps by offering some remarks on the iconography of the Holy Women at the Tomb in fourteenth-century Ethiopian manuscript illumination.

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TombEthiopiaChristianIconographyMarthaMary Magdalene
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 3 , October 2015 , pp. 557 - 595
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