Balthazar : a black African king in Medieval and Renaissance art / edited by Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene ; with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

• Introduction. Balthazar's Blackness : equally noble, equally foreign / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- An African King in Art and Legend / Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene. Geographies of the Black magus tradition / Paul H.D. Kaplan ; Why Black? The meanings of epidermal race in the European Middle Ages / Geraldine Heng ; Color, race, and religion in Spain : Cantigas de Santa Maria / Hussein Fancy -- Connecting Continents through Trade and Diplomacy / Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene . African kingship : real and imagined / Gus Casely-Hayford ; Connective threads : Nubian trade, dignitaries and display / Andrea Myers Achi ; Ethiopian monks in Europe / Samantha Kelly -- The Black magus in the public sphere / Paul H.D. Kaplan ; A Black magus comes to Rome from Kongo / Cécile Fromont ; The Black magus in "We Three Kings of Orient Are" / Paul H.D. Kaplan -- Epilogue / Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene -- Afterword. Curating Black history with Black audiences in mind / Tyree Boyd-Bates.

• "In this book, experts explore the representation of Balthazar as a Black African king. They examine medieval and Renaissance artworks that portray the European fantasy of the Black magus, offer clues about the Africans who may have inspired these images, and chronicle the Black presence in premodern Europe"-- 

Ämnesord

Medeltidskonst  (sao)

Renässanskonst  (sao)

Svarta personer i konsten  (sao)

Afrikaner i konsten  (sao)

Tre vise männen i konsten  (sao)

Black people in art.  (LCSH)

Africans in art.  (LCSH)

Art, Medieval  -- Themes, motives. (LCSH)

Art, Renaissance  -- Themes, motives. (LCSH)

Magi  -- Art. (LCSH)

Africans in art.  (fast)

Black people in art.  (fast)

Magi.  (fast)

Art, Medieval  -- Themes, motives. (fast)

Art, Renaissance  -- Themes, motives. (fast)

Africans in art  (LCSH)

Magi--Art  -- Art (sao)

Art, Medieval  (LCSH)

Black people in art  (LCSH)

Art, Renaissance  (LCSH)

Genre

Art.  (fast)

Personnamn

Balthazar (Biblical figure) -- Art.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ibvz Särskilda motiv i konsten

Klassifikation

N8110 (LCC)

7.071-054(=96) BAL (UDK)

704.9/484 (DDC)

Ibvz Balthasar (kssb/8)