Andrea Myers Achi is Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
“This splendid exhibition was gotten underway by Helen C. Evans, who . . . has stunned the public with exhibitions of the art of Byzantium and its relations with its immediate neighbors. . . . The catalog, skillfully edited by Andrea Myers Achi, reaches even farther: across the Mediterranean shore of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, and from Gaza to the sources of the Nile.”—Peter Brown, New York Review of Books “The catalogue brings to the foreground a plethora of factors that contributed to the development of African art as part of the Byzantine world, while at the same time highlighting its uniqueness, which derived from its specific socio-economic, religious, cross-cultural and multilingual circumstances.”—Angeliki Lymberopoulou, English Historical Review