Jacopo Gnisci is an art historian specialising in Ethiopian Art and Christian manuscript illumination. He is a lecturer in the art and visual cultures of the global south at University College London and a visiting scholar at the British Museum.
Reports of atrocities in the Ethiopian region include the targeting of Tigray’s unparallelled cultural treasures
Vivid illuminated manuscripts show how important the cult of the Virgin Mary was to the emperor Zar’a Ya‘eqob
In the debate surrounding the Maqdala artefacts, the significance of the individual objects is often ignored
