Great Zimbabwe
Watercolour and oil pastel
©2019 Charlene Brown
Following a lecture on African Art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, I've painted another site which will be listed on the History of Design page I
will include in my blog post in a couple of weeks - the medieval city of Great Zimbabwe. It was completed during the late Iron
Age in that part of Africa, and according to legend (and Wikipedia) was the capital of the Queen of
Sheba. The country of Zimbabwe, which gained independence from Great Britain as
Rhodesia in 1980, is named for this important site.
