The Image Of The Black In Western Art From The Age Of Discovery To The Age Of Abolition Artists Of The Renaissance And Baroque

Download or read book The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition : artists of the Renaissance and Baroque. The epiphany of the Black Magus circa 1500 / Joseph Leo Koerner ; Italy, 1490-1700 / Paul H.D. Kaplan ; The image of the Black in Spanish art : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Victor Stoichita ; The Black presence in British art : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / David Bindman ; Rembrandt's Africans / Elmer Kolfin ; Heliodorus's An Ethiopian story in seventeenth-century European art / Joaneath Spicer written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It surveys as never before the presence of black people, mainly mythical, in art from the early Christian era to the fourteenth century. The extraordinary transformation of Saint Maurice into a black African saint, the subject of many noble and deeply touching images, is a highlight of this volume. The new introduction by Paul Kaplan provides a fresh perspective on the image of the black in medieval European art and contextualizes the classic essays on the subject. --Book Jacket.