Hailesilase with his grandchildren

The term image is used to imply a respectful picture. It is normally painted on a level wooden board, yet in Ethiopia, as in various traditions, materials, for instance, metal or stone could in like manner be used to make this sort of picture. The most reliable realized Ethiopian images have been dated to the fifteenth 100 years and are all around painted with gum put together paint with respect to Esso arranged wooden sheets. Ethiopian images from this period conventionally portray the Virgin and Kid, the Messengers, and Holy person George.

The piece showed up here, which can be dated liable to the second half of the fifteenth 100 years, incorporates precisely such a mix of subjects.