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  1. A New Exhibition Explores Balthazar, a Black African …

    The Adoration of the Magi was a common subject in European art. The New Testament recounts that sometime after Jesus’s birth the Holy Family was visited by gift-bearing Easterners called magi. Magoswas a Greek word for a Persian priest or dream interpreter. The Gospel accounts of Christ’s birth do not specify the number of magi, nor their names. Bu...

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    The African identity of the third Magus was alluded to in European art for the first time in 1266, when artist Nicola Pisano sculpted two African attendants in a scene with the Magi. Their features and hair clearly identify them as sub-Saharan Africans; this identification is underscored by the camels they ride. This convention—to depict Balthazar ...

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    In our previous exhibition Outcasts: Prejudice and Persecution in the Medieval World, we displayed a miniscule painting of the African magus in a tiny book of hours (below). The label stated, “The late fifteenth-century black African magus is a paradoxical figure. His presence reveals the racial diversity in Europe at a time when ecumenical church ...

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