ʾAfnin
Solomon Gebreyes
Period of Activity
He was an alleged painter of the Italianate school of painting, was active during the last two decades of the 15th century and the first decades of the 16th century. He was a priest and it appears that he was also a student of Brancaleone↗ . His work is kept at Marṭula Māryām↗ church.
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Names
- birth: አፍኒን፡ gez
Dates
Period of activity: 1480–1510
Occupation
painter
Faith
notSpecified
Nationality
notSpecified
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Chojnacki 2003. ‘Afnin’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 127b.
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Chojnacki, S. 1999. ‘The Discovery of a 15th-Century Painting and the Brancaleon Enigma’, Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 43 (1999), 15–42 (DOI: 10.2307/41299976).
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Spencer, D. 1974. ‘Travels in Gojjam: St. Luke Ikons and Brancaleon Re-discovered’, Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 12/2 (1974), 201–220.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻʾAfninʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 24.1.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS1462Afnin [Accessed: 2024-04-20+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 24.1.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor