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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of illustrations 4 Aknowledgements 7 Contributors list 8 Introduction 10 I. ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 17 1. A Tale of Four Cities: Late 16th and Early 17th Ethiopian Capitals and their Turkish, Portuguese, and Indian Connections (Richard Pankhurst) 18 2. Ethiopian and Jesuit Monumental Stone Architecture in the Lake ?ana Basin: A Preliminary Assessment (LaVerle Berry) 28 3. Foreign Influences and Local Contribution in Gondarian Architecture (Fasil Giorghis) 39 4. Portuguese and Indian Influences on the Architecture of the Lake ?ana Region: An Inquiry into the Rôle of Gänätä Iyäsus (Ian Campbell) 45 5. The Monastery of Mär?ula Maryam: Questions and Speculations about its Architecture and Ornamentation (Paul B. Henze) 57 II. PLASTIC ARTS 64 6. Place, Space and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Gondarine Painting (Tania C. Tribe) 65 7. Ethiopian Warrior Saints in 18th-Century Miniature and Their Significance in the Cultural History of Ethiopia (Stanislaw Chojnacki) 75 8. 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 SusniyosÆ court (c. 1610-11) to the murals in the Narga ?illase church (c. 1738-50) (Claire Bosc-Tiessé) 85 9. Analysis of Seventeenth-century Ethiopian pigments (Anaïs Wion) 103 10. Ahmad Graññ and the Portuguese in Ethiopian Folk Painting (Girma Fisseha) 114 III. DECORATIVE ARTS 119 11. The Portuguese Import of Luxury Textiles to Ethiopia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries and their Subsequent Artistic Influence (Michael Gervers) 120 12. Imported Textiles in Ethiopian Traditions (Martha H. Henze) 128 13. The Cross brought to Goa and Portugal by Libnä DingilÆ s envoy Mathew (Isabel Boavida) 136 14. A Military Helmet and Mail Shirt at Däbrä Wärq, Go??am: Two historic objects of probable earlier Portuguese provenance (Stephen Bell) 143 Index.. 169
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Art, Ethiopian 16th century Congresses, Art, Ethiopian 17th century Congresses, Christian art and symbolism Ethiopia Congresses, Art, Ethiopian Foreign influences Congresses, Art Political aspects Ethiopia Congresses