Images & Art

A changing photo stream and a lasting collection of visual culture.

Art & Visual Heritage

Weekly artwork selections — New additions are scheduled each Saturday, prioritizing Sudanese artists, with creator credits and source links.

A curated companion to the photo stream: contemporary and historical art, photography, crafts, posters and book arts, with Sudan first and room for the wider world.

Nubian Christian wall painting depicting the three youths in the fiery furnace

Historical painting · Sudan / Nubia

Three youths in the fiery furnace — Nubian church painting

Painter unrecorded · Historical painting; photograph published 2005

A Nubian church painting photographed at the museum in Khartoum. The descriptive title identifies the scene from Daniel 3; the record does not name the original painter or date the artwork.

View artwork & source ↗ Wikimedia Commons · Photograph by Ibrahim Omer / ancientsudan.org · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unmodified

Explore at the source

Additional artworks to view on their original collection websites. These are source-only recommendations, not missing gallery images.

  • Untitled – four Faces of Eve ↗

    Kamala Ibrahim Ishag · 2016 · Contemporary painting · Sudan

    Oil on canvas. View the artwork and collection record at the source; image reproduction permission has not been established.

    Sharjah Art Foundation · View the artwork image and details at the source.

  • Composition ↗

    Kamala Ibrahim Ishag · 2016 · Contemporary art · Sudan

    Oil on a calabash-ball surface: painting meets the form of a traditional vessel. Image displayed at the source.

    Sharjah Art Foundation · View the artwork image and details at the source.

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