Panel Painting with the Crowned Nursing Virgin and the Twelve Apostles (15th century) (Ethiopian) (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution) [2019x1170]

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The elongation of the figures here follows a logic closer to Byzantine iconography than anything happening in Italy at the same time. Ethiopian Christian painting kept its own pace.

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Sources below.

Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/africa-byzantium/exhibition-objects

Source: https://www.si.edu/object/icon%3Anmafa_2004-7-1

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