Isabel Boavida: 1 book
The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art
On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th–17th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition. This little-known and rarely studied architectural heritage is a silent witness to a fascinating if equivocal cultural encounter...
