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Transcripts of lectures given at the "Sunday at the Met" program
October 2, 2005
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Referring to works in the Museum's extensive
collections, Thelma K. Thomas sets the stage for the introduction
of Christianity into Africa in the first centuries after
the life of Christ. She presents developments of the beliefs,
ritual practices, and material culture of Christianity
in Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia. Brandie Ratliff's lecture
explores the wide-spread appeal of the ancient Orthodox
Monastery of Saint Catherine on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula,
where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.
Elizabeth Bolman presents the richly colored interior currently
being revealed by an international team of experts at the
Red Monastery in the Nile Valley. Alisa LaGamma provides
an overview of some of the landmark artistic achievements
of Ethiopia's Orthodox Church that continue to be important
sites of devotion and pilgrimage. Her commentary will be
complemented with that of New York
Times photographer Chester
Higgins, Jr., who has eloquently documented the sites in
question.
[Note to the reader: Only a few of the slides used to illustrate
the live lectures have been reproduced here. In some cases,
image credits were not provided by the speaker. For the
purposes of this website, the speakers have
provided some citations and suggested reading related to
their lectures.]
This program, part of the free Sunday at the Met series at the Museum, was made possible by Kay Harrigan Woods and by Suzanne Fawbush and Christopher Grisanti.
Image: Doorway at the Church of the Redeemer (Medhane Alem). Detail of photograph by Chester Higgins, Jr. © Chester
Higgins, Jr.
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