The Indestructible Sinner
Image displayed with permission of Ethio-SPaRe Project
The Indestructible Sinner
- This painting (also called an illumination) appears in a manuscript likely made in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, and dated to 1632-1667. You can view this painting in the manuscript Ethio-SPaRe Project, [Ethiopic Collection], Manuscript No. DD-001, f. 76v, s. 77a, or learn more about this manuscript at its PEMM Manuscript page. You can also read the related story at its PEMM Story page.
- Many Geʿez manuscript paintings are in "Synoptic Narrative Art” style; that is, a single painting depicts multiple moments in the story, providing a series of vignettes representing different plot points. PEMM calls these "episodes". This painting of PEMM Story ID 140 has 6 episodes. The painting's episode descriptions, locations, and keywords are:
- 1. Bārok sitting in his house surrounded by those for whom he makes a feast (top-left). The object(s) are house; stool; cup; beaker; table; mesob; food.
- 2. His guests sitting and drinking wine (bottom-left). The object(s) are cup; beaker; vase; jar.
- 3. The icon of the Virgin and Child (top-center). The object(s) are icon. The living being(s) are Mary: Jesus Christ.
- 4. Bārok being consecrated as a monk (center). The object(s) are church.
- 5. Bārok surrounded by his attackers who are holding various weapons (bottom-right). The object(s) are stone; rock; spear.
- 6. The funeral of Bārok (top-right). The object(s) are burial shroud.
- This painting has a caption in Geʿez, which Jeremy Brown has translated as: How Barok made a feast for our Lady Mary with gifts of an abundance of bread and an abundance of mead; How his attendant gave wine to Barok: Barok's house.
- The number of PEMM manuscripts that have paintings of this story is 38. The total number of paintings of this story in PEMM manuscripts is 54.
- PEMM's ID number for this painting is 1784.
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