Reposted by Mari Välimäki
The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.
Mari Välimäki
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Historian of #earlymodernity, #gender, #youth & #academiclife. Writing in Finnish, Swedish & English. orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-4675. Also interested in knitting, reading and guinea pigs
