AFRICA AND BYZANTIUM

351pp., 4to., colour illus., maps, hardback, d.w., New York, 2023

Published in conjunction with the exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 2023 - March 2024, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, April - July 2024.

Brings together more than 170 masterworks in a range of media and techniques - from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, panel paintings, and religious manuscripts - that recount the contributions of Nubia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and other African kingdoms to the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond

Contributions include:

"Representations of Egyptian Holy Men" by Thelma K. Thomas

"Jewish Art in Late Antique Africa" by Pratima Gopalakrishnan and Naila Razzaq

""Aksum and Byzantium" by Felege-Selam Yirga

"Representations of Black People in Mediterranean Antiquity" by Sarah F. Derbew

"Bright as the Sun: Religions, translations, and circulations in post-Byzantine Africa" by Vince L. Bantu

"Nubia and Byzantium" by Giovanni R. Ruffini

"Medieval Islamic Inlaid Metalwork in the Churches of Lalibela" by Deniz Beyazit

"Egypt after Byzantium: Transitions, memory and cultural preservation" by Andrea Myers Achi

"The Artistic Renaissance of Early Modern Ethiopia" by Kristen Windmuller-Luna.

"Imagined Futures, Imagined Pasts" by Suzanne Conklin Akbari. 

Andrea Myers Achi is Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.