Face to Face: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe

FAIN: GE-50097-09

Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, MD 21201-5118)
Joaneath A. Spicer (Project Director: August 2008 to December 2010)

Planning for a traveling exhibition, a website, lecture series, a catalog, and educational and public programs examining the presence of Africans in the art of Renaissance Europe.

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland requests support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the planning of the international loan exhibition provisionally titled Face to Face: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe. NEH Grant funds are requested to fund focus groups, exhibition advisory committee meeting travel, curatorial travel related to loans and contributions, and an exhibition research assistant position. To reveal the African presence in Renaissance Europe, the exhibition will examine the geographical, historical and social conditions affecting Africans in Europe. It will then offer face to face encounters with the actual individuals affected by these factors -- from slaves to rulers - through the medium of great Renaissance portraiture.

Associated Products

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe (Catalog)
Title: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Author: Ben Vinson III
Author: Joaneath Spicer
Author: Natalie Zemon Davis
Author: Kate Lowe
Abstract: Five essays and an illustrated checklist explore the varied social roles and contributions of Africans and their descendants in Renaissance Europe as revealed in compelling paintings, drawings, sculpture and printed books of the period. This beautifully illustrated publication, edited by the exhibition's curator, Dr. Joaneath Spicer, accompanies the exhibition. This publication accompanies an exhibition featured at The Walters Art Museum October 14, 2012- January 21, 2013.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://thewalters.org/store/purchase1.aspx?p=1828
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

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