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- Distemper, gesso and cloth on wood
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crossOuter spaceanimalshorsesmother and childHorsemen and horsewomenAngelsmoon
About
The rich colors, especially the green and deep blue, are typical of this time period in Ethiopian icon painting. The emphasis on Mary's hand gesture, the Christ child's book and the shawl's decorative folds and star and cross ornaments derive from a Jesuit copy of an Italian engraving of a Santa Maria Maggiore icon. Mary's handkerchief, however, is an Ethiopian status symbol.