Event
Ethiopian Devotions Book Launch
Ethiopian Devotions: Paintings, Illuminated Manuscripts, and Processional Crosses from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Centuries.
Edited by Marilyn E. Heldman and published posthumously, the book features essays by notable scholars as the late Gatachew Haile, Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Denis Nosnitsin, Marie-Laure Derat and LeVerle Berry discussing various aspects of Ethiopian Orthodox Church art, liturgical music, hagiographic traditions and architecture.
Join us for a book launch program with the authors in the spirit of celebrating Heldman's work and legacy.
On View At
The National Museum of African Art is the only national museum in the United States dedicated to the collection, exhibition, conservation, and study of the arts of Africa.
Washington, DC
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily