ʾƎsṭazyā
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: እስጠዝያ፡↗ normalized: ʾƎsṭazyā↗ baptismal: ገብረ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡↗ normalized: Gabra ʾƎgziʾabǝḥer↗ ʾalaqā role: title ↗
Birth
1872
Period of Activity
He was a traditional Ethiopian painter. He received a traditional church education in Dabra Bizan↗ . After his ordination as a deacon, ʾƎsṭazyā↗ continued his education in qǝne bet and Zemā bet. He studied church painting in the same monastery, possibly under the guidance of Gabra Giyorgis↗ from Goǧǧām↗ . It seems that ʾƎsṭazyā↗ 's main interest was monumental wall-painting. He painted murals in the churches of Tǝgrāy↗ , Gondar↗ and Eritrea↗ .
Death
1942
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Names
- birth: እስጠዝያ፡ gez
- baptismal: ገብረ፡ እግዚአብሔር፡ gez
- ʾalaqā role: title
Dates
Birth: 1872
Period of activity: 1882–1942
Death: 1942
Occupation
traditional painter
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Balicka-Witakowska, E. 2005. ‘Ǝsṭäzya’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 387b–388a.
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Girma Elias 1997. ‘Aläqa Esterzia’s Church painting and the Sources of their Captions in Sacred Books’, Bulletin de la Maison des Études Éthiopiennes, 11 (1997), 85–95.
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻʾƎsṭazyāʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 13.2.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS3887estazya [Accessed: 2024-05-03+02:00]
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: complete record on 13.2.2017
- 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
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