John the Evangelist, Gunda Gunde Gospel Book, Ethiopia c. 1540
Ink and paint on parchment
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Ethiopian art is having a moment. Two major exhibitions in the United States have just closed – Africa and Byzantium at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Ethiopia at the Crossroads in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore….

Art in focus is curated by Meryl Doney

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This is an extract from an article published in the April 2024 edition of Reform

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