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Andrea Myers Achi

Africa and Byzantium

Andrea Myers Achi

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
26 January 2024
History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art
The first exploration of the artistic and cultural intersections of the African continent and the Byzantine world

 

Medieval art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire, but less known are the profound artistic contributions of Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had an indelible impact on the Mediterranean world. Bringing together masterworks in a range of mediums and techniques—from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, panel paintings, and religious manuscripts—this publication recounts Africa’s centrality in far-flung transcontinental networks of trade and cultural exchange. With incisive scholarship and new photography of works rarely or never before seen in public, Africa and Byzantium sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of medieval Africa. This long-overdue publication reconsiders the continent’s contributions to the development of the premodern world and offers a more complete history of Africa as a vibrant, multiethnic society of diverse languages and faiths that played a key role in the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond.

 

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

  Exhibition Schedule

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

(November 19, 2023–March 3, 2024)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

(April 14–July 21, 2024)

 
Edited by:  
Imprint:   Metropolitan Museum of Art
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 241mm, 
ISBN:   9781588397713
ISBN 10:   1588397718
Pages:   352
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Africa and Byzantium

“This splendid exhibition was gotten underway by Helen C. Evans, who . . . has stunned the public with exhibitions of the art of Byzantium and its relations with its immediate neighbors. . . . The catalog, skillfully edited by Andrea Myers Achi, reaches even farther: across the Mediterranean shore of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, and from Gaza to the sources of the Nile.”—Peter Brown, New York Review of Books


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