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Tuesday
Nov132012

Old Master Portraits Open Windows Into the Lives of African Individuals From All Levels of European Society

 

Girolamo da Santacroce - Adoration of the Kings, ca. 1525–30. Oil on panel, 67.7 x 81.2 cm, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902 (37.261) (click photo for larger image)

“The Walters Art Museum presents Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, an exhibition exploring the little known presence of Africans and their descendants in Europe from the late 1400s to the early 1600s.”

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This will be an extraordinary exhibit. Anyone who happens to be in the Baltimore, MD area should see it.

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I'll be in Baltimore mid-March so I'll miss the exhibit but, I always go to both the Walters and the Baltimore Museum of Art (which is up by Johns Hopkins). Both worth a visit when in the area.

November 13, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterVictoria

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