Album leaf, late 17th century, Unknown, 53 1/2 x 87 5/16 in. ( x cm) (outer frame), Pigments on vellum, Ethiopia, 17th century, Christian art has a long history in Ethiopia, where it developed its own characteristics after the new faith became the state religion in the 350s. These two seventeenth-century paintings on parchment are part of a larger ensemble of forty-four lavishly illuminated leaves featuring Ethiopian saints and scenes from the Hebrew scriptures and the Christian Bible. The illustrations are painted in the style known as the First Gondarene style

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