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¡mage in Western Art
PART TWO
H istorians speculate that in the
m id -IJth century Fredrick II, em
peror o f the sprawling and faltering
Empire, ordered the creation o f the
firs t art works p o rtra y ig a Black
Saint Maurice, and German artists
continued to depict Saint Maurice as
a Black man until the 6th century.
During the same period, the com
plexion o f the A fric a n Queen o f
Sheba became as changeable as the
skin o f a chameleon. Some medieval
artists depicted the Queen as a white
woman while others portrayed her,
more accurately, as a Black woman.
And these artists used the A frican
Queen's visit to the Hebrew King
Solomon to sym bolize those who
chose to pass from paganism to
Christianity.
in the late 15th and early 16th
centuries, the image o f a Black King
Balthasar, one o f the three Wise
Men who carried gifts to the infant
Jesus, became a popular theme in
the Western w o rld . In fact,
Balthasar was the most common
Thia depiction of a Black King
Balthasar, one of the three Wise
M en, is a detail from "Adoration
of the M a g i." p a in te d by H ie
ronymus Bosch betwen 1490 and
1610 A D.
Black image projected in the art o f
the period.
A rt historians say that the image
o f the Black King not o nly per
petuated the theme o f the univer
sality, but that it also reflected the
a rtis ts ’ and the p u b lic ’ s cu rio sity
about “ e xo tic”
w u ild s and
unknown people.
However, the cu riosity o f these
early Renaissance Westerners did
not seem to supplant general
prejudice
against
Blacks.
Throughout the 15th and 16th cen
turies, Western artists went on
creating
art
works
which
stereotyped Blacks as servants and
infidels. And, for the most part, the
positive images o f Blacks were sym
b olic p o rtra its o f Black saints,
queens and kings.
D uring the early 16th century,
however, there was at least one
famous artist who didn’t always use
the stock images o f Blacks in his
w orks. W hile vis itin g Flanders
around 1508, German artist
A lb re cht D urer drew th o u g h tfu l
portraits o f the Black people he en
countered. “ I did the p o rtra it in
charcoal o f Brandao, the fa c to r’ s
clerk, I did the p o rtra it o f his
M oorish woman in s ilv e rp o in t,”
Durer wrote o f these drawings in the
diary he kept during his visit.
Like the ancient Greeks and
Romans, Durer based his portrayal
o f Blacks on first-hand knowledge,
not rumors and superstition. His
simple, honest drawings show that,
when he looked at these B la c k -
people, D urer did not see
stereotypes and symbols, he saw real
human beings.
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