Ethiopian Icon
エチオピアのイコン / 14th century– / Style / Icon Painting
The sacred painting of Ethiopian Orthodoxy: large almond eyes, bold outlines and vivid flat color — the Byzantine inheritance rewritten by African form.
Large almond-shaped eyes / Bold outlines / Vivid flat color / Folding triptychs
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Gunda Gunde school / healing scrolls / continuity into modern Ethiopian painting