The left page of the little book — on view at the Walters Art museum for the next three months — contains a drawing of a man who comes perilously close to dying for his art while painting a religious icon from atop a scaffold. After the Walters, the exhibition will travel to two other museums: the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and Ohio’s Toledo Museum of Art. “The story of Ethiopian art is one of community,” museum director Julia Marciari-Alexander wrote in the catalog accompanying the exhibits. “Early Ethiopian images of the crucifixion don’t show Christ,” Sciacca said. “Ethiopia at the Crossroads” runs through March 3 at the Walters Art Museum, 600 N. Charles St.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2023 11:43 UTC