We turn this week from art on paper to art on leather, traveling to Ethiopia, one of the oldest Christian civilizations in the world, where a unique form of sacred art developed down the centuries influenced by African, Arabic-Islamic, Byzantine, and European culture. My featured painting in tempera on a tanned animal skin by an unknown Ethiopian artisan shows Jesus in a boat with his disciples, stilling a storm on the Sea of Galilee. These anonymous icon-makers work in the styles of the church schools where they train, continuing an art form rooted in ancient illuminated manuscripts. The simple, wide-eyed holy figures copy time-honored prototypes, but Ethiopian icon-makers add their own personal decorative touches, as can be seen in the close to fifty pieces on view on the Ethiopian Icons page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)