This bibliography focuses on visual arts, namely, painting, architecture, sculpture, engravings and, to a certain extent, textiles, produced within the Ethiopian region (now divided into Ethiopia and Eritrea) during the long period of Rock art of the Holocene era to contemporary art. In the northern part of this area, South Arabia people developed important settlements during the first millennium ECB. There, the kingdom of Aksumite flourished from the 1st century BC until the sixth century EC, and was Christianized in the 4th century. There are very few remains of Christian art Aksumite, but from the thirteenth centuries to the 20th centuries, there was an uninterrupted production of religious paintings and church buildings. Islam was extended to this part of Africa since its inception, and Muslim sultanates developed from this moment in the eastern region and then as specifically around Harar, from the sixteenth century. At the end of the 19th century, Mennelik, king of the king of Ethiopia, expanded the southern part of his country, doubling the size of him.
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