Black Presence

Black culture in European art narrated through the Uffizi Galleries' artworks

The Uffizi

Black Presence - i

Video in English | Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) analyzes the figure of a black musician in the Perseus by Piero di Cosimo

Black Presence - II

Justin Randolph Thompson analyzes the figure of Magus Balthazar

Black Presence - III

The Portrait of Four Servants at the Medicean Court by Gabbiani and the role of those figures within the Court itself

Black Presence - iv

The figure a standing apart soldier in a work by Carpaccio

Black Presence - v

Two peasants and a black servant, Peter the Moor, in a painting by Suttermans

Black Presence - VI

Video in English | Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) analyzes the figure of Benedetto d'Angola Silva, un African albino man portrayed by Domenico Tempesti

Black Presence - VIII

Video in English | Alessandro de' Medici, illegitimate son of Lorenzo de' Medici and Simonetta, a black African slave, in two works by Vasari and Bronzino, described by Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF)

Black Presence - VII

Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) describes the portraits of Emperor Atana de Dinghel and Alchitrof, two works by Cristofano dell'Altissimo from the Giovio Series

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