The indigenous and the foreign in Christian Ethiopian art : on Portuguese-Ethiopian contacts in the 16th-17th centuries

Contents: Introduction; Architecture And Urbanism: A tale of four cities: late 16th and early 17th Ethiopian capitals and their Turkish, Portuguese, and Indian connections, Richard Pankhurst; Ethiopian and Jesuit monumental stone architecture in the Lake Tana basin: a preliminary assessment, LaVerle Berry; Foreign influences and local contribution in Gondarian architecture, Fasil Giorghis; Portuguese and Indian influences on the architecture of the Lake Tana region: an inquiry into the rôle of Gänätä Iyäsus, Ian Campbell; The monastery of Märtula Maryam: questions and speculations about its architecture and ornamentation, Paul B. Henze. Icon And Mural Paintings: Place, space and representation in 18th-century Gondarine painting, Tania C. Tribe; Ethiopian warrior saints in 18th-century miniature and their significance in the cultural history of Ethiopia, Stanislaw Chojnacki; The use of occidental engravings in Ethiopian painting in the 17th and 18th centuries: from the success of the book Evangelicae Historiae Imagines by Nadal at King Susniyos' court (c. 1610-11) to the murals in the Narga Sillase church (c. 1738-50), Claire Bosc-Tiessé; Analysis of 17th-century Ethiopian pigments, Anaïs Wion; Ahmad Graññ and the Portuguese in Ethiopian folk painting, Girma Fisseha. Decorative Arts: The Portuguese import of luxury textiles to Ethiopia in the 16th and 17th centuries and their subsequent artistic influence, Michael Gervers; Imported textiles in Ethiopian traditions, Martha H. Henze; The cross brought to Goa and Portugal by Libnä Dingil' s envoy Mathew, Isabel Boavida; A military helmet and mail shirt at Däbrä Wärq, Goggam: two historic objects of probable earlier Portuguese provenance, Stephen Bell; Bibliography; Index.