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Western Iconography’s Impact on Ethiopian Painting: European Hell in Ethiopian Churches
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33 Экономика. Народное хозяйство. Экономические науки
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32 Политика
Date of publication
16.12.2019
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2019
DOI
10.18254/S268684310007903-6-1
Western Iconography’s Impact on Ethiopian Painting: European Hell in Ethiopian Churches
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While the Ethiopian Christian iconography relies on two major artistic traditions—Byzantine and Western European, the iconography of infernal demons was inspired specifically by Western European art. The Ethiopian tradition has developed four basic iconographic types of demons, each going back to different artistic schools, both in terms of place of origin and timing. Unexpected though evocative parallels between Ethiopian and Mozarabic depictions of Hell, Satan and other infernal beasts prompt to look for historic opportunities that could have introduced the very specific Spanish pre-Romanesque art of the 10–11th centuries to Ethiopian artists. The studies of Aragonese-Ethiopian and Portuguese- Ethiopian contacts of the 15–16th centuries support the hypothesis of Ethiopian acquaintance with illuminated Mozarabic manuscripts.

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Valeria Kuvatova
research fellow
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
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