Thu 12 Nov, 2020 Event Recording, Medieval and Renaissance, Renaissance Italy, Research Forum, Research Seminars

[ONLINE] Ethiopian Christians in Florence: Filippino Lipp...

Fifteen-century Florentine paintings regularly include black figures, almost always as men with low social status. In The Rise of the Black Magus in Western Art (1985), Paul Kaplan briefly considered the absence of African kings in fifteenth-century Central Italian representations of the Adoration of the Magi. This talk explores a related question: why do Florentines begin…

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Find Out More[ONLINE] Ethiopian Christians in Florence: Filippino Lippi’s Adoration of the Magi and ‘Miracle of St Philip’