Burgkmair, In Allago

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Description: Natives of Africa and India

TitleNatives of Africa and India

Creator nameBurgkmair, Hans, the elder

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1508

Object typePrint

MaterialsWoodcut

DimensionsSheet: 9.02 × 6.06 in. (22.9 × 15.4 cm)

LocationThe British Museum, London

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1437688&partId=1&people=130600&peoA=130600-2-60&page=1

Accession number1856,0614.105

SubjectsAlgoa Bay (South Africa)Families in artIndigenous peoplesChildren in artPrints, German

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4. The African Transposed

Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery,” Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World

The last quarter of the fifteenth century witnessed a fresh outbreak of representations of Africans. From then on the black is really “seen” and “translated” in various ways. This variety reflects the contradictions in which Europe was living. Except for the highly localized example of St. Maurice, the most traditional theme and the one most closely connected with the...

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Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.185-279

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00138.008

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Chapter subject tags:Africa--Discovery and explorationAfricans in artArt and historyChristian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500Magi--Art

Mapping

Susan Dackerman (Editor)

Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

~~New editions of Ptolemy’s Geography, advances in navigation, interest in expanded trade routes, and the desire for greater knowledge of the world drove an enormous growth in the making and use of maps in the sixteenth century. Maps enabled actual as well as meditative journeys. Erhard Etzlaub’s map of the...

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Susan Dackerman (Editor)

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.317-355

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00097.014

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Chapter subject tags:Cartography--Europe--HistoryEurope--Intellectual life--16th centuryPrints, RenaissancePrints, European--16th centuryCartographyIndigenous peoples in art

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