Africa and Byzantium

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"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 manuscri...

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ISBN:

9781588397713

Description:

351 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 29 cm

Notes:

Catalogue of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 19, 2023-March 3, 2024; and at the Cleveland Museum of Art from April 14-July 21, 2024
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-344) and index

Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Contributors to the catalogue
Lenders to the exhibition
Note to the reader
Timeline
Boundaries and borders
From Carthage to Aksum : Africa in late antiquity
Byzantine Egypt
Byzantine North Africa
The kingdoms of Nubia
The Aksumite Empire
Black Africans of the Mediterranean
Bright as the sun : Africa after Byzantium
Post-Byzantine Africa
Post-Byzantine Egypt
Nubia, Byzantium, and beyond
Legacies : Black Byzantium
Ethiopia and Byzantium
Ethiopian icons
Artistic renaissance in Christian Ethiopia
Contemporary reflections
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photography credits

Control Number:

3283914

Other Authors:

Achi, Andrea Myers, curator, contributor
Achour, Moèz, contributor
Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, contributor
Al-Ferzly, Michelle, contributor
Cleveland Museum of Art, host institution
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, issuing body

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