Hans Memling's Last Judgment and St. Maurice

Painted between 1467 and 1471, Last Judgment is a triptych depicting, interestingly, a Black person as one of the saved and as the damned, representing the universalism of Christianity through which anyone could find salvation or damnation. The following statue of Saint Maurice, created in the 13th century for the Cathedral of Magdeburg in modern-day Germany, depicts a saint as a Black person. Somehow, St. Maurice, who had never been depicted as a Black, was transformed into one by medieval German Christians. It likely was not that difficult to change his color, considering the historical Maurice's roots in Upper Egypt and the Latin maurus, referring to dark-skinned people of North Africa.