The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

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BOOKThe Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137

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In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector’s items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volumes and two additional ones.

The new edition of From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire offers a comprehensive look at the fascinating and controversial subject of the representation of black people in the ancient world. Classic essays by distinguished scholars are aptly contextualized by Jeremy Tanner’s new introduction, which guides the reader through enormous changes in the field in the wake of the “Black Athena” story.

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Print publication date November 2010 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780674052710

EISBN 9780300244465

Illustrations 396

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List of illustrations

Portrait of Fath Khan, son of Malik Ambar
Ancient and modern racial classification
From ape to Apollo: a progression of skulls, from monkey and black to European and the classical ideal
Comparative study, classical statue and the instructor Rodolphe
Race unchanged throughout thousands of years
Oil flask (back view)
Painted wall relief from the tomb of Seti I: the fifth hour of the Book of Gates, depicting (bottom row) the types of humans, offspring of the solar deity: Egyptians, Cushites, Libyans, Syro-Palestinians, Thebes-Luxor, New Kingdom, Dynasty XIX
Details of depictions of Syro-Palestinians, Cushites, and Libyans, from the fifth hour of the Book of Gates in the tomb of Ramses III
Red-figure pelike
Black African slave boy, reclining asleep on his master's bathing equipment
Young black slave
Cosmetic jar
Figurine of a Pygmy Dance Leader
Statue of an African prisoner
Head of an African prisoner
Head of an African prisoner
Head of an African prisoner
Reserve Head of an African princess
Statuette of a concubine
Statuette of a black woman
Troop of Nubian archers, detail
Troop of Nubian archers, detail
Nubian mercenary and his wife, detail of a stela
Military procession including a black standard-bearer; fragment of painted relief
Nubian tributaries bringing offerings, detail of the procession of Nubian tribute bearers
Nubian tributaries bringing offerings, detail of the procession of Nubian tribute bearers
Procession of Nubian tribute bearers
Tomb painting: offering of gold
Tomb painting: offerings of African products
Tribute scene (detail)
Tribute scene (detail): group of black women with children
Stela of Amenhotep III
Black prisoners bound to the pharaoh's war chariot, detail of the stela of Amenhotep III
Bearing tribute from the south to Tutankhamen, detail: ship loaded with cargo
Bearing tribute from the south to Tutankhamen
Bearing tribute from the south to Tutankhamen, detail:The prince of Miam and the chieftains of the "Wawat
Bearing tribute from the south to Tutankhamen, detail: black prisoners followed by omen and children
Bearing tribute from the south to Tutankhamen, detail: herd of cattle
Military expedition returning to Egypt from the Upper Nile, detail of low relief: rhinoceros
Military expedition returning to Egypt from the Upper Nile
Egyptian military expedition returning to Egypt from the Upper Nile, detail: prisoners bearing products from the south
Egyptian military expedition returning to Egypt from the Upper Nile, detail: drummers
Procession of Amun (detail): black dancers and trumpet players
Athletic contest presented before the court and foreign ambassadors, detail of low relief: a black and an Egyptian wrestling
Athletic contest presented before the court and foreign ambassadors, detail: black man among the spectators
Fragment of column base: escutcheon of a conquered people from the south
Base of a colossus of Ramses II: list of the conquered southern peoples (detail)
Footstool: black and Asiatic captives in chains
List of the conquered southern peoples (detail): three escutcheons
Base of a colossus of Ramses II: list of the conquered southern peoples (detail)
Base of a colossus of Ramses II: list of the conquered southern peoples (detail)
Kneeling black captive; detail of the socle of an Osiride pillar of Ramses III
Sub-base of a colossus of Ramses II, row of kneeling prisoners
Amenhotep as a sphinx trampling his enemies; side panel of the pharaoh's throne
Architectural inlays: black prisoners
Head of a black prisoner: detail of relief carved on throne base
Slaying of black and Asiatic prisoners by Ramses III before Amun (detail)
Statuette of a young Nubian girl carrying an ointment jar
Statuette of a young Nubian girl carrying an ointment jar
Statuette of a young black girl presenting a stemmed bowl supported by a monkey (before restoration)
Statuette of a young black girl presenting a stemmed bowl supported by a monkey (after restoration)
Black dancer beside a woman playing a tabor
Ointment spoon in the form of a swimming black girl
Mirror with handle carved in the form of a standing black girl
Young black dancer (detail)
Tutankhamen's painted box, detail
Tutankhamen's painted box
Dagger
Black in the clutches of a lion (detail of dagger)
Fragment with Head of a Nubian Prisoner
Blacks bearing tribute
Counting of black captives
Counting of black captives, detail
Counting of black captives, detail
Statuette of a Nubian captive
Statuette of a Nubian captive
Fragment of a stela bearing the image of King Piye
Fragment of a stela with Kashta in profile
Lid of a canopic jar
Head of Shabaka
Head of Shabaka
Head of Shabaka, fragment of a colossal statue
Head of a Cushite Ruler, three-quarter view, front
Statuette of Shabaka kneeling
Statuette of Shabaka kneeling, detail
Shabaka opposite a falcon-headed god, low relief on a reused block of stone
Shabaka opposite a god
Statuette of Harmakhis
Shabataka before the god Amun (detail)
Colossal statue of Taharqa, treading on several bows
Bows trampled beneatht he pharaoh's feet, detail of the colossal statue of Taharqa (fig. 79)
Head of Taharqa
Head of Taharqa
Taharqa facing Hemen, the falcon god
Taharqa facing Hemen, the falcon god
Sphinx of Taharqa, detail
Sphinx of Taharqa
Taharqa protected by a ram
Taharqa making an offering of milk
Portrait of Taharqa, detail of low relief
Portrait of Taharqa, fragment of low relief
Portrait of Taharqa, detail of low relief
Portrait of Taharqa, low relief on a doorpost
Shawabti of Taharqa
Shawabti of King Taharqa
Shawabti of King Taharqa
Carved ivory plaquette: royal lion cub devouring a Cushite
Shawabti of Taharqa
Inlay fragment: head of a black
Inlay fragment: head of an Asiatic
Queen Qalhata introduced by two divinities (detail)
Lid of a canopic jar, with head of the god Imsety, given the features of Tanutamun
Lid of a canopic jar, with head of the god Imsety, given the features of Tanutamun
Tanutamun greeted by Montu
Tanutamun presenting offerings to the god Osiris-Ptah (detail)
Tanutamun before Osiris-Ptah (detail)
Amenirdas I presenting bowls of wine to Amun (detail)
Statue of Amenirdas I, detail
Amenirdas I facing Sefkhet-'abu (detail)
Statuette of a kneeling king
The god Ptah seen in profile, fragment of low relief (detail)
Profile of the god Amun
Sphinx of Shepenwepet
Pendant of Harpocrates
Statuette of Osiris seated
Statue of Irigadiganen
Statue of King Senkamanisken, overall view, three-quarters
Statue of King Anlamani
Colossal statue of King Aspelta
Statue of King Senkamanisken, detail
Sovereign adorned with jewels (detail)
Meroitic sovereign sitting enthroned
King Arnekhamani and his son Arka facing the god Apedemak
Stela of Nastasen (detail)
Head of the god Sbomeker
Queen Amanitore and King Natakamani opposite the lion god, four-armed Apedemak
King Natakamani dominating his enemies
Cargill plaquette: Prince Arikankharer defeating his enemies
Negro goddess, detail of low relief
Group, perhaps Queen Shanakdakhete and her son
Triad with the ram of Amun flanked by Sbomeker and Arensnuphis
Colossal statue
Pillar statue
Statuette of Osiris
Funerary stela
Statuette of a "ba" bird
Statuette of a "ba" bird (fragment)
Statuette of a "ba" bird (fragment)
Head of ba bird (fragment)
Head of ba bird (fragment)
Anthropomorphic sarcophagus
Pendant: three African prisoners overpowered by a vulture
Negroid profile carved in shell
Jewel fresco fragment: pendants in the form of heads of blacks wearing earrings
Nubian archer, detail
The Captain of the Blacks (reconstruction)
Detail of a procession: Negro clad in a loincloth
Head of a young mixed type, fresco fragment (detail)
Casts of scarabs with heads of blacks
Perfume vase juxtaposing a head of a bearded barbarian and a head of a Negro
Hydria, scenes from Heracles fighting against the Egyptians, side A: Heracles slaying Busiris's priests
Hydria, scenes from Heracles fighting against the Egyptians, side B: soldiers coming to the aid of Busiris
Group of Nubian mercenaries, detail of a military parade
Aryballos in the form of a head of a Negro
Attic kantharos in the form of head of an elderly
Amphora, detail showing Memnon and an Ethiopian warrior
Amphora, view showing Memnon and two Ethiopian warriors
Amphora, detail of Ethiopian warrior
Red-figure cup, detail of interior
Oinochoe in the form of conjoined heads of a white woman and a Negro
High-handled drinking cup (kantharos) in the form of two women's heads
Mask of Negro: cast (modern)
Mask of Negro: mold
Mask of a Negro
Attic alabastron: Ethiopian warrior
Sotades, rhyton in the form of a Negro struggling with a crocodile
Red-figure pelike
One of Busiris's servants, detail of a pelike
Busiris (?), detail of a stamnos
Servant of Busiris, detail of a cup
Hydria (detail): Heracles and Busiris's servants
Red-figure cup, detail of interior
Stamnos
Red-figure pelike, detail
Red-figure pelike, detail
Red-figure pelike
Personification of Ethiopia, detail of scene from the "Andromeda" of Euripides
Calyx-krater: scene from the Andromeda of Euripides (?)
Kantharos in shape of conjoined heads of a white woman and a satyr
Kantharos in shape of conjoined heads of a white woman and a satyr
Plastic vase: Andromeda (?)
Antefix: mask of a Negro
Antefix: mask of a Negro
Antefix: mask of a Negro
Negroid Victory driving Heracles' chariot, detail of an oinochoe
Negroid Circe offering magic potion to Odysseus, detail of a skyphos
Triobol, obverse: helmeted goddess
Triobol, reverse: head of a Negro
Coin, obverse: head of a Negro
Coins, obverse: head of a Negro
Coin, obverse: head of a Negro
Coin, obverse: head of a Negro
Coin, obverse: head of a Negro
Kantharos: conjoined heads of Heracles and a Negro
Cameo mounted in ring bezel: sleeping Negro, in a crouching position
Statuette of a crouching Negro
Lekythos, detail of side A: young Greek woman
Lekythos, detail of side B: Mulatto maid-servant
Red-figure amphora
Perfume flask (aryballos) in the shape of two heads
Amphora, detail
Intaglio mounted in a ring bezel: head of a woman
Pendant in the form of a Negro head
Mask of an old woman
Mask of a Negro
Calyx-krater: phlyax-farce observed by two women wearing Negroid masks
Calyx-krater (detail): female dancer and a caricatural figure seesawing on either side of a statue of Silenus
Standing figure with Negroid features
Etruscan oinochoe in form of a Negro wearing a laurel wreath
Etruscan oinochoe in form of a Negro wearing a laurel wreath
Negro Boy Group, plastic mug in the form of an African boy's head, three-quarter view to left
Rhyton: head of a man mixed type, frontal view
Head of a Negroid satyr, detail of a krater
Rhyton: Negro youth struggling with a crocodile
Rhyton: Negro youth struggling with a crocodile
Lekythos: head of a Negro in profile
Plastic vase: head of a man of mixed type
Plastic vase: head of a man of mixed type
Krater: unidentified scene (Lynceus cutting the throat of Danaus?)
Askos: black woman dancing between a maenad and a satyr, overall view
Detail of fig. 219
Phiale
Phiale, detail
Askos in the form of a child crouching beside a vase
Lekythos in the form of crouching child
Askos with mask of a Negro in relief
Askos (flask with a spout and handle)
Rhyton in the form of the head of an African (fragment)
Boxing match and flute player, detail of a Greek painting
Tetradrachm
Portrait of a North African of mixed type
Young black groom steadying a horse, statue base (?)
Young black groom steadying a horse, statue base (?) (detail)
Young mulatto groom, fragment of a funerary relief
Mosaic of the Nile in flood, detail
Mosaic of the Nile in flood
Head of a Negro
Fragment of a balsamarium in the form of a Negro head
Mask of a Negro
Bust of a Child
Lamp in the form of a Negro head
Perfume vase: head of an adolescent of Nilotic type
Balsamarium: head of an adolescent of Nilotic type
Handle or pommel in the form of three conjoined heads
Necklace with two heads of black women forming clasp
Earrings in the form of Negro heads
Head of a Negro which may have adorned a pin
Lagynion decorated with a couple embracing
Lagynion decorated with a couple embracing
Incense shovel with a Negro head attached to handle
Incense shovel with a Negro head attached to handle
Head of a Negro man, three-quarter front view
Head of a Negro man, profile view
Statuette of a young musician (?)
Statuette of a young musician (?)
Statuette of a young musician (?)
Statue of a young Negro, perhaps a musician, overall view
Statue of a young Negro, perhaps a musician, overall view
Statue of a young Negro, perhaps a musician, overall view
Black African Youth
Bronze statuette of an African (known as Ethiopian) youth
Black captive or slave
Askos in the form of a youth sleeping beside an amphora
Askos in the form of a youth sleeping beside an amphora
Statuette of a captive
Statue fragment: adolescent with Negroid features
Statuette of a juggler
Statuette of a Negro seated, writing on a scroll
Statuette of a seated Ethiopian in imitation of the Spinario
Statuette of a black dancer
Statuette of a dancer (?)
Etruscan coins, obverse: head of a black mahout
Etruscan coins, obverse: head of a black mahout
Etruscan coins, reverse: elephant
Etruscan coins, reverse: elephant
Statue of a jockey
Statuette of a captive
Statuette of a captive
Statuette of a warrior carrying a double-edged ax
Statuette of a warrior carrying an ax and a shield
Bust of an Ethiopian
Sarcophagus fragment: barbarians before a Roman general surrounded by soldiers
Apotheosis of Alexandria enthroned between Asia and Africa
Great Hunt Mosaic, detail: Ethiopian leading a team of oxen
Black bath attendant
Head of a woman representing Libya
Statuette allegory of Africa
Vase in the form of a Negro head
Isiac ceremonial with several black officiating priests
Isiac ceremonial: sacred dance performed by a black
Statue of a youth standing with arms extended forward
Statue of a singer or actor
Statue of a singer or actor, detail of head
Statuette of a draped Ethiopian
Statuette of a draped Ethiopian
Statuette of a nude black youth
Statuette of a nude black youth
Statuette of a phlyax-actor
Statuette of a phlyax-actor
Statue of an acrobat balancing on a crocodile
Statuette of a tightrope walker clad in a short tunic
Statuette of a wrestler, half melted from a fire
Rattle: child asleep in a squatting position
Statue of a youth standing with arms extended forward, detail
Perfume vase: head of a Negro
Counterweight: head of a Negro
Counterweight: bust of a woman
Fragment of a scraper decorated with bust of a diver
Bust of a child
Inkwell in the form of a crouching Negro
Two nails with Negro heads in relief
Two nails with Negro heads in relief
Lamp in the form of a Negro head
Vase in the form of a Negro head
Furniture attachment: head of a Negro
Bowl decorated with three heads in relief separated by flat, veined leaves
Boundary marker with Negro head
Statuette of a gladiator
Statuette of a Negro carrying a ram
Lamp in the form of a Negro head, with facial cicatrices
Lamp in the form of a Negro head with facial cicatrices
Head of a youth
Head of a man
Head of a laughing Negro
Lamp in the form of a Negro youth, seated, wearing a cucullus
Pepper pot in form of sleeping African slave
Intaglio, Negro head
Plastic vase: Negro head
Plastic vase: Negro head
Head of an African(?) priest
Head of an Isiac priest
Head of an African
Head of an African
Head of a woman
Head of a girl, possibly an acolyte to a priestess
Head of a black youth
Portrait of Memnon
Portrait of Memnon
Portrait of Memnon, detail
Mosaic of the Gladiators (detail of east border): torture of Garamantes attached by wild beasts
Mosaic of the Black Camel-riders
Amulet in the form of a head of a black
Scarab with head of a black
Mask of a man
Nilotic mosaic (detail): Pygmy armed with a stick
Fragment of a Nilotic mosaic: Pygmyes and a hippopotamus
Mosaic: Allegory of the Life-giving Nile (detail): black muscians in front of anilometer
Mosaic: black bath attendant
Mosaic of the Gladiators (detail of west border): ostrich hunt
Fragment of a mosaic: chariot race in a circus and black grooms (detail)
Mosaic of Silenus (detail): young black behind a dromedary
Fragment of a balsamarium
Lamp in the form of a head of a black
Lamp
Lamp
Mosaic: rural scene (detail): fowling
Solar mosaic
Black swimmers symbolizing the dawn
Herm ending in an African head
Herm ending in an African head
Black sorcerer, detail of the Mosaic of the Seasons
Black cook, detail of the Hunt Mosaic
Mosaic of the Wrestlers
Portrait of Juba II, king of Mauretania
Portrait of Juba II, king of Mauretania
Statuette of a black youth holding a bird in his left hand
Floor mosaic, detail of bear and bull
Alabastron with a draped warrior on one side and a palm tree and serpent on the other
Alabastron with a draped warrior on one side and a palm tree and serpent on the other
Head of a black servant
Another fragment from rhyton: battle scene including a crouching Negroid figure
Rhyton in the form of a black struggling with a crocodile
Balsamarium in the form of a bust of a black
Statuette of a draped Pygmy standing beside a vase
Mosaic of the Nile in flood, detail: Nubian hunters pursuing a monkey
Sarcophagus decorated with a Nilotic scene (detail)
Terracotta plaque: Nilotic landscape with Pygmies in a boat
Pygmies fighting crocodiles and a hippopotamus
Nilotic scene (detail): Pygmies protecting themselves from a crocodile with crossed sticks
Statuette of Harpocrates on horseback
Vase in the form of the god Bes
Handle of a sistrum with a Bes and an Isis dancing back-to-back
Handle of a sistrum with a Bes and an Isis dancing back-to-back
Funerary relief: sacred dance performed during an Isiac ceremony (Negroid dancers and musicians), overall view
Dancers and musicians in main zone of frieze, detail of sacred dance performed during an Isiac ceremony
Statue of Isis

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Contents

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.001

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Preface to The Image of the Black in Western Art

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

The Image of the Black in Western Art was conceived by the late Dominique Schlumberger de Menil (1908–1997) and her husband, John (1904–1973), fifty years ago. The de Menils were known internationally for their patronage of artists such as René Magritte and Max Ernst as early as the 1930s, and eventually for the size and range of their art collection. Their passion for...

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

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Related print edition pages: pp.vii-xix

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.002

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Chapter subject tags:Africa, WestAfricans in artArt and raceRacism in art

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Acknowledgments

David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

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David Bindman (Editor), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor)

PublisherHarvard University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.003

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Introduction to the New Edition: Race and Representation in Ancient Art: Black Athena and After

Jeremy Tanner

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

The first volume of The Image of the Black in Western Art was a landmark publication in the history of ancient art. The collaboration of a series of experts, assembling an unprecedentedly rich collection of visual representations of black people from ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire, sought...

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Jeremy Tanner

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Related print edition pages: pp.1-39

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.004

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Chapter subject tags:AfrocentrismEgypt--Civilization--African influencesGreece--Civilization--African influencesArt, Ancient--EgyptRome--Civilization--African influences

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1. The Iconography of the Black in Ancient Egypt: From the Beginnings to the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty

Jean Vercoutter and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Egypt’s geographical location in the Lower Nile Valley gives her a privileged position in Africa. From the earliest times, even before the climate changed to what it is at present, the valley of the longest river on earth has been a route of communication between the subtropical and equatorial world south of the Sahara—in other words, the black world—and the Mediterranean basin,...

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Jean Vercoutter and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.41-94

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.005

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Chapter subject tags:Black people--EgyptBlack people--AfricaPharaohsNubiansArt, Ancient--EgyptSculpture, EgyptianTemples, EgyptianEgypt--History, MilitaryMural painting and decoration, EgyptianBlack people in art--EgyptRelief (Sculpture), EgyptianRamses II, King of EgyptTutankhamen, King of EgyptWomen, Black--Egypt--HistoryCaptive blacks--Egypt--History

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2. Cushites and Meroites: Iconography of the African Rulers in the Ancient Upper Nile

Jean Leclant and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

A vigorous civilization developed in the Upper Nile Valley, south of Egypt, at the end of the third millennium and through the first half of the second. This was Kerma, and for us it is still very much a mystery. Most likely it is...

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Jean Leclant and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.95-140

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.006

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Chapter subject tags:CushitesNubiansBlack people in art--EgyptNile RiverEgypt--Kings and rulersPharaohsSculpture, EgyptianRelief (Sculpture), EgyptianTaharka, King of EgyptWomen, Black--Egypt--HistoryEgypt--Queens

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3. Iconographical Evidence on the Black Populations in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Frank M. Snowden Jr.

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Representations of Negro peoples appear in every major period of classical art. Yet very few illustrations of blacks are included in handbooks and histories of Greek and Roman art, and when some are given, the choice always turns to the same small group of examples ...

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Frank M. Snowden Jr.

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.141-250

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.007

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Chapter subject tags:JuvenalEgypt--History--Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.Black people in art--Egypt--History--Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.

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4. The Iconography of the Black in Ancient North Africa

Jehan Desanges and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

It is quite clear that the classical world came to know the blacks by way of the Nile Valley: the evidence set forth in the preceding chapters is abundant proof of this. We cannot, however, reject a priori, from the mere fact of its geographical location, the possibility that Punic (later Roman) Africa may have had direct knowledge of the black world, knowledge which in the course of time could...

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Jehan Desanges and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.251-274

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.008

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Chapter subject tags:Mosaics, RomanAfrica, NorthBlack people in art--Rome--HistoryArt, AncientArt, Greco-RomanBlack people in art--Greece--HistoryPtolemy I Soter, King of Egypt, -283 B.C.

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5. Egypt, Land of Africa, in the Greco-Roman World

Jean Leclant and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

The Saïtic, or Twenty-sixth, Dynasty (664–525 B.C.) marked the opening of the Nile Valley to the Mediterranean world and to Greek influence; but as compared with what is conventionally called “classical civilization,” Egypt presented a strikingly different culture ...

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Jean Leclant and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.275-288

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Chapter subject tags:Europe--Civilization--Egyptian influencesTrade routesArt, Greco-Roman--Egyptian influencesAfricans in art

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Acknowledgments and Perspectives to the First Edition

Dominique De Menil

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

The decision in 1960 to launch a systematic investigation of the iconography of blacks in Occidental art did not proceed from any clear plan. It was an impulse prompted by an intolerable situation: segregation as it still existed in spite of having been outlawed by the Supreme Court in 1954.

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Dominique De Menil

PublisherHarvard University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00137.010

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Preface to the First Edition

Ladislas Bugner

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire

Preface to the First Edition

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