Friday, June 14, 2013

Images of the Black in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Black Drummer, early 16th century Germany


Black Magus

Black Trumpeter, England in the early 16th century
Juan Latino, black professor of 16th century Spain
Black Drummer in this picture
Portrait of a Moor, of a clearly cultured, cultivated, and refined black male asking the viewer to judge him on European standards
Katharina, slave of a Portuguese living in Antwerp, I think, by Durer
Titian piece


2 comments:

  1. "
    Portrait of a Moor, of a clearly cultured, cultivated, and refined black male asking the viewer to judge him on European standards"

    This portrait is African Man by Mostaert, and according to my research its Emperor Charles V Habsburg. He ennonled alessandro de Medici, who had classical African looks.From his tahter or mother as de medici family were brown and black skinned Europeans, some looking classical African. All whitened portraits of Charles V confirm he had thick lips, and subnasal prognathism. Inhereted from ferdinand of aragon, his granddad who was also a Black man. They were the first Europeans from Africa, and founded Greece and renaissance. Look for portraits of his son and niece Dorothea of Denmark, a miniature that shows a Black woman. I'm reading this book with Charles V on the cover, and this meanspirited book is based on the idea all Blacks in Europe were slaves. Why depict a slave with a golden crown on the head? Why depict a slave in silver and gold? The Moors are symbols of Blyue Blood, high nobility and Black Superiority. The noblles were light brown, brown, very brown and black in looks. They were only 2-3% and oppressed thwhites who were 97%. These images are heraldic images with heraldic Moors. In 0% of the cases a noble person also showed classical African looks, thus resembled a Moor. These looks were regarded as ' distinguished' or proof of pure blood' or 'proof of noble blood.'

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  2. No. Why do you even spread such ridiculous things? Why don't you just research about African rulers in AFRICA instead of making Europans black?
    https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-4986
    This is the site where the painting was taken from.
    "He may have SERVED at the Brussels court of Emperor Charles V, who had a black archer called Christophle le More among his bodyguards. The badge of the Virgin on his cap is a souvenir of a pilgrimage to Halle (Brabant), a favourite destination of pilgrims from the Brussels court."

    This is the real Charles V: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/emperor-charles-v-at-muhlberg/e7c91aaa-b849-478c-a857-0bb58a6b6729

    And you found this out that the first painting was Charles V according to your "research". What kind of research is this? If you visit atlantablackstar.com, hebrewisraeliteourstory.tumblr.com, some other blogs, or just type in "The true moors" and look at pictures without even looking at the site their from, you can not call this research. These are pseudohistory sites, full of self-invented claims, every 5-year-old can write something on such sites without giving any source. Most Youtube videos that claim such things just want to get clicks from insecure people. Then, seeing people even believing them and getting defensive over history that isn't even theirs, without even doing actual research, is simply embarrassing. Don't deny your real history, and stop claiming others. Obviously, your type of "research" has brought you to this nonsense about "Black supremacy" you wrote above. If you want to show me that I'm wrong, just link me to your sources.

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