Zwart verbeeld archief / The Image of the black in Art Archive

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De Zwart verbeeld archieven, The Black is beautiful archives:

• Miniatures from 1200 to 1550

Oxford Bodleian Library MS Douce 195 fol 96 detail.

• Biblical histories  ca 1450 – 1830
  

Cornelis van Haarlem, Batseba Colletion Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

• Mythological histories 1450- 1830
  

Crispin de Passe/Bernard Picart Chareclea

• Genre 1480- to 1830
• Portraits 1500-1830

Reinier Vinkeles

Jean Bernard, Portret van onbekende man 1818. Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

• Nineteenth century 

With thanks to the Sanlam collection South Africa: Frans David Oerder 1896

• Twentieth Century 

• Contemporary 

About me:

In 2008 I was guest curator of the exhibition Black is beautiful. Rubens to Dumas. Important advisors Elizabeth McGrath (Rubens and colleagues, Warburg institute Image of the Black in Western Art collection), Carl Haarnack (slavery in books), Elmer Kolfin (slavery in prints and paintings) en Adi Martis (contemporary art). Gary Schwartz made his research for The Image of the Black in Western Art available to me.

Black beautiful Rubens to Dumas cover

In 2014 my essay ‘Painted Blacks and Radical Imagery in the Netherlands (1900-1940)’ was published in The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume V (I). (ed. David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates jr.)

In 2017 I published a book about the black servants at the Court of the Royal Van Oranje family. More than a thousand documents have been found about their lives. (only in Dutch)

All photos on this site are not intended for any commercial purpose. I have tried to trace all the rules and rights of all images. As far as I know, these images can be used in this way. If you ar a copyright holder and would like a piece of your work removed or the creditline changed then please do not hesitate to contact me.

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