Balthazar : a Black African king in medieval and Renaissance art

by Kristen M. Collins (Editor)

Other authorsJr. Henry Louis Gates (Introduction), Bryan C. Keene (Editor)
Paper Book, 2022

Publication

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2022]

ISBN

9781606067857

Notes

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION - Henry Louis Gates Jr.

AN AFRICAN KING IN ART AND LEGEND
Geographies of the Black Magus Tradition - Paul H. D. Kaplan
Why Black? The Meanings of Epidermal Racein the European Middle Ages - Geraldine Heng
Color, Race, and Religion in Spain: Cantigas de Santa Maria - Hussein Fanc

CONNECTING CONTINENTS THROUGH TRADEAND DIPLOMACY
African Kingship: Real and Imagined - Gus Casely-Hayford
Connective Threads: Nubian Trade, Dignitaries,and Display - Andrea Myers Achi·
Ethiopian Monks in Europe - Samantha Kelly

BLACK AFRICANS AND THE PARADOXOF THE RENAISSANCE
The Black Magus in the Public Sphere - Paul H. D. Kaplan
A Black Magus Comes to Rome from Kongo - CĂ©cile Fromont
The Black Magus in “We Three Kings of Orient Are” - Paul H. D. Kaplan

EPILOGUE

AFTERWORD
Curating Black History with Black Audiences in Mind - Tyree Boyd-Pates
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