Art History: BVA 312 - 26/03/2019 (Class: European art and Africa)

European art and Africa 

Picasso was mainly influenced by the African art  in the 20th century.
But what is happening to African in Europe during the Renaissance era? Are they always been slaves?
African people began to appear in European painting.

• Saint Maurica (ca. 1520-25) 
•  Jan Jansz Mostaert Portrait of an African Man (ca. 1525-30)
• Juan de Pareja  by Velazquez (1606-1670)
• - the calling of St. Matthew (1661) by Juan de Pareja 
• Onyeka Nubia: Blackamoores. He studies of comparative histories and intersectionalism (Video)
• Miranda Kuafman: Black Tudors. (Video)

Class on video:

Onyeka Nubia: African Presence in Tudor England.

Part 1- How we see ethnicity and nation?

21st century England is presented Queen Elizabeth the second's monarch 

before 1948 there's no diversity, but the fact it has been. Focusing on African has been in england for more than thousands of years. 

800 BCE until 15th/16th century  

8th - 15th century, Invasion from north African to the european countries occurs. 

The moors introduced chess game to Europe. 

The Spanish form their identity by incorporating ideas from African and other continental of Muslim and black people. 

Renaissance period, people nowadays only focus on the victorian eyes. How about other culture? 

Why Renaissance only happens in Spain, Italy, etc. Near the  Mediterranean sea, like west African during the Renaissance were famous for their literature. They contain information on europe, Greek - Arabic - African .

European learn Arabic to translate literature into English, Latin. 

St Louis, saint morris as an African descend, european worshipping the blackness. Black people shown in painting. european in that era. 

* Jet-Black Cleopetra 

Balthazar: the Black Magi. Balthazar is the youngest in the family, depicting he came late. why 15 16 century painted a black man more dignified that his white counterpart. the Black man was shown a foot taller than others. 

why Nobody visualized European society?

People in Europe being baptized 

Morlen who was a black night for king Arthur the fourth. Doesn't present the existence of African in their society. The barrier between races weren't define, mixed marriage occurred during the 15th/16th century too. 

Mary Fillis, willingly being baptized after living in a white country for thirteen years. 

John Blanke on the Westminister Tournament (1511), Wanted to be accpeted by the morrish community. 

Miranda Kaufmann, African in Tudor:

Presence of Africa during the 1500-1600s. African were not slaves at that time, they were being baptist and married in England and European countries. Positive Black history, the slave trade puts a negative connotation to the society on Africa.

Everyone has been slaves, for example: 

European people has been slaves for North African, for pirate and so on.