| 1890 | The photographic camera is employed in the court and elsewhere in the country to record significant events and create portraits of important individuals. It will be a major tool for several church-trained and self-taught artists to achieve representation of space and to model form by gradations of light and dark, and to establish a sense of proportion and relationship between various parts of the body. |
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| 1894 | Afewerk Gebre Yesus, the western-educated artist, has a disagreement with Empress Taytu Betul, who is dissatisfied with the portrait he has painted of her and with the panel and mural he has painted at Entoto, St. Maryam and St. Raguel churches. He is later forced to flee to Switzerland and Italy, swearing not to return until the empress is dead. |
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| 1894 | The first postage stamp designed by an Ethiopian artist is issued. It depicts Emperor Menelik II and the Lion of Judah. Afterward, several well-known artists become regular contestants and commissioners in designing postage stamps. |
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| 1896 | Following the defeat of the Italians in the battle of Adwa, European nations establish legations in Addis Ababa. Commercialization of new folk-style paintings with mythological and historical scenes flourish. |
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