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Pollaiuolo’s Battle of Naked Africans?
This week has been concerned a strange, but fun, mixture of finalising our renaissance make up recipes for the Making Up the Renaissance study day (finding red sandalwood, allum and vinegar to make lipstick and blusher, for example), and avid … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, battle of naked men, Cadamosto, Nudes, Pollaiuolo, Renaissance, Senegal
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African slavery and Italian nudes
I’ve been reading a lot about renaissance ideas about Africa today, last minute additions to a talk I’m giving at Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies on Thursday. This is all for the book I’m writing on ideas about … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Art, Florence, Italy, nude, Pisanello, race, Renaissance
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