If anyone comes across Jesus Christ portrayed as a person of African phenotpye (wiry/woolly hair, full facial features) from sculptures or paintings from the 1st through 15th century, please provide a picture and link so I can add it to row [A] of this page:
Abyssian Ethiopian iconography has tons and tons of black Jesuses and other biblical persona. Many were made in the early periods of the Abyssinian church between 4th century A.D. and 15th century A.D. However, iconography is still a living tradition in today's Ethiopia-Abyssinia.
I have one example, but there are tons and tons of them.
This one here:
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PHOTOS FROM BOOKS OF CHRIST OF ROMAN EMPIRE OR MEDIEVAL CHURCHES
Iron. Wonderful video. Could I bother you for more, though, from a university library?
Living now in Cape May County, I have no access to such libraries.
I used to take my digital camera and a tripod and take pictures at libraries. Over the years, I took thousands of poignant, one-of-a-kind pictures long-forgotten under countless subjects African.
Would you (or someone) be so kind as to take an afternoon and go to your nearby university with a camera and search for museum art books/photo-albums under:
"Christian churches, Roman Empire" or "sculpture, Jesus Christ, Roman Empire" ?
Jesus, being the key subject, should be well-represented in images African (his disciples and the saints as well!!).
Probably the best libraries, though, are libraries at Catholic seminaries or Catholic university religion sections in their library under the VATICAN as the Vatican has the world's largest collection by far of early Christian art when the world was still black. Catholic libraries will have big Vatican art sections.
It's museum-quality pictures of sculptures, friezes, and 500 to 1,000 year-old paintings I am looking for to put on that web page.
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