John Malveaux: Getty.edu: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art

The Adoration of the Magi (detail), from a book of hours (text in Latin), Provence, France, about 1480–90, Georges Trubert. The J. Paul Getty Museum

John Malveaux of 
www.MusicUNTOLD.com
writes:

The Three Wise Men (Magi) who visited the infant Jesus included African King Balthazar. See 

Balthazar

A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art

November 19, 2019–February 16, 2020, GETTY CENTER 

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/balthazar/