Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria

by Enid Schildkrout and Henry John Drewal

Book Overview

Dynasty and Divinity presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists at Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (located in present-day southwestern Nigeria), created sculpture that ranks among the most aesthetically striking and technically sophisticated in the world. Dynasty and Divinity reveals the extraordinarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945802536
• ISBN13: 9780945802532
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: National Museum of African Art
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.3"