In 2006 Dunietz first encountered the work of Ethiopian composer and pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, and was so enamoured by them that she travelled to find the composer in a Jerusalem monastery ...

Reaching the monastery, which is 7,000ft above sea level and clings to a mountainside, was no mean task. Lester Capon, a British bookbinder normally based in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, spent ...

The practice of painting and sculpture in Ethiopia is an ancient tradition that dates back to the Axumite civilization, ... Historical records indicate that the painting of Saint Mary at ...

Rather than continuing her studies, however, Tsegué-Maryam devoted herself to her faith, moving to a mountain-top monastery in Ethiopia and becoming a nun, completely abandoning her musical life. In ...

In 1915, Norwegian artist Emanuel Vigeland, one of the most respected Scandinavian artists of his time, created an image of Christ with golden hair and fair skin. Vigeland was well aware of a ...

Above: Jatenipat “JKboy” Ketpradit surrounded by Mongolian Tsam masks. Top: A Mongolian master mask maker and his disciples. The book contains hundreds of arrestingly beautiful photographs which ...

The easy-to-navigate PEMM website includes over 2 million pieces of painstakingly collected data documenting the development of these Marian stories, from the very beginning, to their flourishing in ...

And in Ethiopia, after I gave photos to a few of them, suddenly there was a long queue of the people waiting for their photo too,” he laughs. The Suri tribe in southwestern Ethiopia (detail) In 2017, ...

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After that near-death experience that left her weak and ailing, she left music behind, joining at age 19 the Gishen Mariam Monastery in Ethiopia’s northern highlands.