Annegret MarxWhen Images Travel to Ethiopia … Impact of the Evangelium Arabicum printed 1590 in Rome on a 17th Century Ethiopian Gospel – Documentation and Synoptic Presentation of their Images –Wenn Bilder nach Äthiopien reisen … Einfluss des 1590 in Rom gedruckten Evangelium Arabicum auf ein äthiopisches Evangeliar (17. Jh.) – Dokumentation und synoptische Gegenüberstellung ihrer Bilder – | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ISBN: | 978-3-8440-6533-6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series: | Geisteswissenschaften, Sprachwissenschaften (Philosophie, Religion,...) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keywords: | Religionswissenschaften; Kunstgeschichte; Orientwissenschaften; Äthiopistik; Bibelillustrationen; Kulturtransfer; Graphik in Buchmalerei; Inkulturation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Type of publication: | Reference books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English-German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pages: | 242 pages | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Figures: | 231 figures | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight: | 863 g | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Format: | 21 x 29,7 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Binding: | Paperback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Price: | 49,80 € / 62,30 SFr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Published: | April 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Abstract: | The book "When Pictures Travel to Ethiopia…” records a cultural transfer from Europe to Ethiopia during the late Renaissance. In the course of the Counter-Reformation, the papal printing press, also named Tipografia Medicea, printed a Gospel in the Arabic language for the mission in the Middle East in 1590. The famous Antonio Tempesta richly illustrated this Evangelium Arabicum with 149 woodcuts. Copies of this book arrived in Ethiopia most probably during the mission of the Jesuits in the 16th/17th century. Their mission failed, the Jesuits were expelled of the country, their books were burned, but Antonio Tempesta’s woodcuts with scenes from the Life of Jesus continued to influence the Ethiopian iconography. They served the Ethiopian monks as templates for the pictures illuminating many Ethiopian Gospel manuscripts created mainly in the 17th century.
Scholars have investigated this influence since many years. However, only a few woodcuts were compared with their corresponding Ethiopian miniatures. The author of the present book succeeded for the first time to confront the complete set of Tempesta’s woodcuts side by side with all miniatures of an Ethiopian Gospel manuscript of the 17th century in order to document it. The access to the Ethiopian artwork was facilitated significantly by digital databases.
The old paintings span time and space from Europe to Africa and back - at the same time the book offers a fresh look at biblical events. Das Buch „Wenn Bilder nach Äthiopien reisen....“ dokumentiert einen Kulturtransfer der Spätrenaissance von Europa nach Äthiopien. Im Zuge der Gegenreformation druckte die päpstliche Druckerei Tipografia Medicea 1590 ein Evangeliar in arabischer Sprache. Es war mit 149 Holzschnitten des berühmten Antonio Tempesta reich illustriert und für die Mission im mittleren Orient bestimmt. Dieses Evangelium Arabicum gelangte vermutlich im 16./17. Jh. im Zusammenhang mit der Mission der Jesuiten nach Äthiopien. Ihre Mission scheiterte, die Jesuiten wurden des Landes verwiesen, ihre Bücher wurden verbrannt – doch die Holzschnitte mit Szenen aus dem Leben Jesu beeinflussten noch lange die äthiopische Ikonographie: Sie dienten als Vorlage für die Buchmalerei vieler Evangelien-Handschriften, die äthiopische Mönche vor allem im 17. Jahrhundert schufen. Dieser Einfluss ist seit vielen Jahren wissenschaftlich untersucht. Allerdings wurden jeweils nur wenige Holzschnitte mit den ihnen entsprechenden äthiopischen Miniaturen verglichen. Mit dem hier vorgelegten Buch gelang es erstmals den vollständigen Bildsatz des Evangelium Arabicum und sämtliche Miniaturen einer äthiopischen Evangelien-Handschrift des 17. Jahrhunderts zu dokumentieren. Der Zugang zu dem äthiopischen Bildmaterial wurde erst durch digitale Datenbanken erleichtert.
Die alten Bilder spannen den Bogen durch Zeit und Raum von Europa nach Afrika und zurück – gleichzeitig eröffnet das Buch einen frischen Blick auf das biblische Geschehen. |