{"id":140115,"date":"2019-06-26T22:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/ethiopian-religious-painting\/"},"modified":"2019-06-26T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:35:05","slug":"ethiopian-religious-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ethiopian-religious-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Religious Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethiopian Religious Painting<\/strong>
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\nImage by A.Davey<\/a><\/i>
\nI believe the figure on the left is St. George, Ethiopia’s patron saint. One clue is the figure in the tree to the right of the horse. Unless I wasn’t paying close enough attention and got it wrong, we were told this figure, which always appears in a tree in Ethiopian paintings of St. George, represents Ethiopia. <\/p>\n

The figures on the right are the Virgin Mary and Jesus.<\/p>\n

Church of Debra Berhan Selassie, Gondar, Ethiopia. <\/p>\n

Emperor Iyasu the Great, a grandson of Emperor Fasilides, built the Church of Debra Berhan Selassie, which means "The Light of the Trinity" in Amharic. Emperor Iyasu ruled from 1682 until his assassination in 1706.<\/p>\n

According to the website ethiopiatravel.com:<\/p>\n

A plain, thatched, rectangular structure on the outside, the interior of Debra Berhan Selassie is marvelously painted with a great many scenes from religious history. <\/p>\n

The spaces between the beams of the ceiling contain the brilliant wide-eyed images of more than eighty angels faces – all different, with their own character and expressions. <\/p>\n

The north wall, in which is the holy of holies, is dominated by a depiction of the Trinity above the crucifixion. The theme of the south wall is St Mary; that of the east wall the life of Jesus. The west wall shows important saints, with St George in red-and-gold on a prancing white horse.<\/p>\n

www.ethiopiatravel.com\/Gondar_eng.htm<\/a> <\/p>\n

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