Jacopo Gnisci

Biographic Data

ID679252
NAMEJacopo Gnisci
GIVEN NAMESJacopo
FAMILY NAMEGnisci
SIGNATUREGNISCI J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-4888-8606
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in British Public Collections

    Open AccessJonas Karlsson, Jacopo Gnisci et al.ARTICLEAethiopica2024

    As material objects bearing textual and visual information, illustrated Christian manuscripts from the Horn of Africa are among the most valuable sources of data for scholars specializing in this field. This article is the second handlist produced within the framework of the AHRC-DFG project Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, and identity in Early Solomonic Ethiopia (1270– 1527). It focuses on illustrated Early Solomonic manuscripts …

  • Annegret Marx, When Images Travel to Ethiopia … Impact of the Evangelium Arabicum printed 1590 in Rome on a 17th Century Ethiopian Gospel

    Open AccessJacopo GnisciARTICLEAethiopica2023

    Review

  • A Multidisciplinary Perspective on an Enigmatic Ethiopian Processional Cross at the Bargello National Museum, Florence

    Jacopo Gnisci, Matteo Salvadore et al.ARTICLENortheast African Studies2023

    This article brings a wide range of perspectives to bear on a fifteenth-century Ethiopian processional cross kept at the Bargello Museum in Florence, bridging the disciplinary divide among scientific, historical, philological, and art historical approaches to this type of artefact. Despite being the subject of several articles, the Bargello cross remains an enigmatic artefact. It has a complex stratigraphy, and it conveys tantalizing if vague inf…

  • A Handlist of Illustrated Early Solomonic Manuscripts in German Public Collections

    Open AccessSophia Dege-Müller, Jacopo Gnisci et al.ARTICLEAethiopica2023

    Illustrated manuscripts in the Ethiopic language, as material objects that carry textual and visual information, are among the most valuable sources of data for art historians specializing in this area. This article provides a handlist of illustrated early Solomonic manuscripts housed in German libraries and museums. The contribution was created within the framework of the AHRC-DFG project Demarginalizing medieval Africa: Images, texts, and ident…

  • A Contextual Reading of Ethiopian Crosses through Form and Ritual

    Open AccessJacopo GnisciARTICLEAethiopica2021

    Maria Evangelatou’s book promises to explore new research questions and challenge Eurocentric approaches to Ethiopian crosses by presenting an analysis of their use and significance among the Christian orthodox population of Ethiopia. Unfortunately, the study fails to deliver on this promise due to a lack of direct engagement with Ethiopian voices and the relevant literature, and a reliance on publications that focus on noncontemporary or non-Eth…

  • Illuminated Leaves from an Ethiopic Gospel Book in the Newark Museum and in the Walters Art Museum

    Open AccessJacopo GnisciARTICLEManuscript Studies: A Journal of…2018

    Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies - Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2018

  • Crosses from Ethiopia at the Dallas Museum of Art

    Jacopo GnisciARTICLEAfrican Arts2018References: 5

    Carried in procession, placed at the top of a church to mark the landscape, held by a priest to bestow blessings, or worn around the neck for protection and to assert identity, the cross, in all its manifestations, has been for centuries a ubiquitous symbol in the daily and religious life of Christian Ethiopians.1 Thanks to the publication of catalogs, articles, and books, the organization of exhibitions, anthropological research, and the study o…

  • Towards a Comparative Framework for Research on the Long Cycle in Ethiopic Gospels

    Open AccessJacopo GnisciARTICLEAethiopica2018

    This article argues that it is possible to improve our understanding of Ethiopian manuscript illumination of the early Solomonic period by adopting a systematic comparative approach. It does so by presenting a case study which analyses and compares the iconography of two examples of the long cycle dating to the second half of the fourteenth century. This comparison shows how technical skills and artistic choices contributed to the shaping of Ethi…

  • Picturing the liturgy

    Open AccessJacopo GnisciARTICLEBulletin of the School of…2015References: 26

    Almost five decades ago the late Stanislaw Chojnacki, one of the founding fathers of Ethiopian art history, began the task of describing the themes in Christian Ethiopian painting. Since then, others have contributed to the study of different subjects in Ethiopian art. Yet there are still gaps in our understanding of Ethiopian iconography. The aim of this study is to help fill these gaps by offering some remarks on the iconography of the Holy Wom…