Central Ethiopia

(Eastern and Southern Africa)

Room Paintings holds one painting by Central Ethiopia, from the Art Institute of Chicago. It dates from 1694. We file it under 17th-Century Painting. Its subjects are children, groups and gatherings and religion. It suits the dining room.

Rooms

Dining Room 1

Museums

Art Institute of Chicago 1

The painting

A three-part panel featuring a variety of scenes, vertically stacked and richly painted. The central panel features the Virgin Mary and and Child flanked by archangels Gabriel and Michael, twelve disciples below them in grid formation.

Central Ethiopia Triptych, Late 17th century Art Institute of Chicago