Publication
London : Turin : Warburg Institute ; Nino Aragno Editore, 2012.
ISBN
9781908590435
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CONTENTS
PART 1. Introduction: reality and metaphor:
Caryatids, page boys, and African fetters: themes of slavery in European art / Elizabeth McGrath
Allegory and ambiguity in Michelangelo's 'Slaves' / Charles Robertson
L'esclavage comme métaphore religieuse dans l'iconographie de l'ordre des Trinitaires / Jean-Luc Liez
PART 2. Galley slaves and Moorish captives:
The iconography of Mediterranean slavery in the seventeenth century / Jean Michel Massing
Messina 1535 to Lepanto 1571: Vasari, Borghini and the imagery of the Moors, Barbarians and Turks / Rick Scorza
From Borgo Pinti to Doccia: the afterlife of Pietro Tacca's Moors for Livorno / Anthea Brook
PART 3. Europe, the Americas and the slave trade:
The urban slave in Spain and New Spain / Carmen Fracchia
Black slavery and the 'mulatto escape hatch' in the Brazilian ensembles of Frans Post and Albert Eckhout / Ernst van den Boogart
Becoming human: the iconography of black slavery in French, British and Dutch book illustrations c. 1600-c. 1800 / Elmer Kolfin
PART 4. Abolitionism and its critics:
George Moreland's 'Slave Trade' and 'African Hospitality': slavery, sentiment and the limits of the abolitionists image / Meredith Gamer
'They are happy people': some newly identified pro-slavery caricatures from the age of abolition / David Bindman
Abolitionists, African diplomats and 'the Black Joke' in George Gruikshank's The New Union Club / Temi Odumosu.
PART 1. Introduction: reality and metaphor:
Caryatids, page boys, and African fetters: themes of slavery in European art / Elizabeth McGrath
Allegory and ambiguity in Michelangelo's 'Slaves' / Charles Robertson
L'esclavage comme métaphore religieuse dans l'iconographie de l'ordre des Trinitaires / Jean-Luc Liez
PART 2. Galley slaves and Moorish captives:
The iconography of Mediterranean slavery in the seventeenth century / Jean Michel Massing
Messina 1535 to Lepanto 1571: Vasari, Borghini and the imagery of the Moors, Barbarians and Turks / Rick Scorza
From Borgo Pinti to Doccia: the afterlife of Pietro Tacca's Moors for Livorno / Anthea Brook
PART 3. Europe, the Americas and the slave trade:
The urban slave in Spain and New Spain / Carmen Fracchia
Black slavery and the 'mulatto escape hatch' in the Brazilian ensembles of Frans Post and Albert Eckhout / Ernst van den Boogart
Becoming human: the iconography of black slavery in French, British and Dutch book illustrations c. 1600-c. 1800 / Elmer Kolfin
PART 4. Abolitionism and its critics:
George Moreland's 'Slave Trade' and 'African Hospitality': slavery, sentiment and the limits of the abolitionists image / Meredith Gamer
'They are happy people': some newly identified pro-slavery caricatures from the age of abolition / David Bindman
Abolitionists, African diplomats and 'the Black Joke' in George Gruikshank's The New Union Club / Temi Odumosu.