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TitleLaura Dianti

Creator nameTitian

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1523–1529

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions118 × 93.4 × 3.5 cm

LocationKisters Collection, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsWomen--PortraitsKings and rulers--ParamoursChildren, Black, in artPainting, Renaissance--Italy

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2. Italy, 1490–1700

Paul H. D. Kaplan

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque

The long and complex historical record of Italian interactions with and attitudes toward people of black African descent does not reveal any abrupt fissure or profound transformation in the years around 1500 ...

Author

Paul H. D. Kaplan

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.93-190

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00140.005

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17066&redirecttoanchor=27688

Chapter subject tags:Art, Italian--16th centuryArt, Italian--17th centurySigns and symbols

4. The African Transposed

Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery,” Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World

The last quarter of the fifteenth century witnessed a fresh outbreak of representations of Africans. From then on the black is really “seen” and “translated” in various ways. This variety reflects the contradictions in which Europe was living. Except for the highly localized example of St. Maurice, the most traditional theme and the one most closely connected with the...

Author

Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.185-279

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00138.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16974&redirecttoanchor=27688

Chapter subject tags:Africa--Discovery and explorationAfricans in artArt and historyChristian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500Magi--Art

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