After Toby Warner's seminar I thought that I would have a go at researching black Africans in Renaissance art to see if it was as easy to find material as he stated so. And as a matter of fact, it was extremely so, if not even easier! So as I searched through the countless images I thought I should gather a small selection of the works to reference to Warner's seminar that I wrote about previously.
If you were to do the same as I, and research this stunning but also boggling subject I would have to recommend visiting The Walters Art Museum's website. This is down to the fact that this Baltimore museum held an exhibition specific to this subject. From October 14, 2012–January 21, 2013 the Walters Art Museum opened the 'Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe' exhibition which was dedicated to exactly as it says on the tin. This exhibition is doing proud the points that Warner was making early in his seminar, that peoples of black African ethnicity, although feature quite heavily in the works of the 1400/1500's, are not shown openly, leaving them out of the history books, and out of the class room altogether. This website and exhibition do a fantastic job at highlighting the importance of different ethnicity in everyday life but also within art.
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