Saturday, November 24, 2012

BlackPastBlog.org: Walters Art Museum in Baltimore: 'Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe'

Portrait of an African Slave Woman, ~1580, attr. to Annibale Carracci

Portrait of a Wealthy African, ~1540, Flemish or German

By Hazel Singer

Friday, November 23, 2012

Books and Art: Beauty, Heritage, Posterity

Reading and books: the gifts of a lifetime. Art: creating and viewing are not passive activities, they hold, store, and explain the past and the present.

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore currently has an exhibit titled Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe.  There are sculptures, cameos, drawings, and paintings, including this one on the right, that show African people of all walks of life interacting with peers, servants, and masters in Europe.The book accompanying this exhibit is excellent and can be found at this link here.


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