A Black Man in Three-quarter Profile, 1522, Engraving, Sheet: 4 1/16 x 2 13/16 in. (10.3 x 7.1 cm), Prints, Frans Crabbe van Espleghem (Netherlandish, Mechelen ca. 1480–1553 Mechelen), This riveting engraving of an African is one of the rare depictions, if not the only one, of a black man as an independent subject in Northern European fifteenth and sixteenth-century art. Most likely not a portrait, the figure has a generalized character; he may have been intended to represent the African king from the Biblical scene of the Adoration of the Magi, often represented at this time as an African figure with a long jeweled earring
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Black Man, Three-quarter Profile, 1522, Engraving, Sheet, 4 1/16 x 2 13/16, 10.3 7.1 cm, Prints, Frans Crabbe van Espleghem, Netherlandish, Mechelen ca., 1480–1553, Mechelen, riveting, engraving, African, rare depictions, if, black man, independent subject, Northern European, fifteenth, sixteenth-century art, portrait, figure, generalized character, intended, represent, African king, Biblical scene, Adoration, Magi, represented, time, figure, long jeweled, earring
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