In images sacred and profane from Venice to Lisbon, Black Africans were largely marginalized in Renaissance imagery. Represented typically as bystanders, nurses, entertainers, and servants in crowded banquet halls, the international conference Hidden in Plain Sight: Black African Lives and Visual Histories in the Early Modern World is conceived with these inescapable truths firmly in mind.
Hosted by the Dutch University Institute of Art History (NIKI) and NYU-Florence, the threeday event will bring together scholars in a wide-ranging conversation spanning a multiplicity of disciplines. Embracing global art history, African and African diasporic studies, anthropology, history, literary culture, and musicology, this workshop invites participants to rigorously re-imagine the cultural dimensions of migration, narratives of work, and evolving concepts of beauty.
January 17-19, 2025
NIKI
Viale Torricelli 5, 50125 Florence, Italy
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