Artist melat interview

The term symbol is used to allude to a reverential image. Normally, it is painted on a level of wood level, although in Ethiopia, as in different customs, the materials, for example, the metal or the stone could also be used to create this type of image. The most popular ethiopian symbols have been dated to the 15th century and are painted by large and painted with rubber-based paint on ESSO prepared wooden boards. Ethiopian symbols of this period generally represent the Virgin and the Child, the Apostles and San Jorge.

The piece appeared here, which can probably be dated to the second 50% of the fifteenth century, includes accurately a mixture of subjects.