The Image of the Black in Western Art MY REVIEW
http://www.imageoftheblack.com
Bindman D. & Gates H.L. The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery”
Part 1: From the Demonic Threat to the Incarnation of Sainthood (November 2010)
Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World (November 2010)
Bindman D. & Gates H.L. The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition
Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque (November 2010)
Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond (November 2011)
Bindman D. & Gates H.L. The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume IV From the American Revolution to World War I
Part 1: Slaves and Liberators (November 2012)
Part 2: Black Models and White Myths (November 2012)
Black Presence in European Art
Chambers, E. (2014) Black Artists in British History: A History Since The 1950s, I.B. Tauris
Debray C, Guégan S., Murrell D. and Pludermacher I.(2019) Le Modèle Noir de Géricault à Matisse, Flammarion, Paris
Fracchia, C. (2019) 'Black but Human' Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700, OUP MY REVIEW
Earle T. F.& Lowe K. J. P. eds (2005) Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge University Press
Fromont, Cécile (2017) The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Hall, K.F. (1996) Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England , Cornell
Joaneath Spicer ed.(2012) Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe . Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, (available free to download on line http://bit.ly/IBLG_Spicer)
Kaplin, P. and Bassi, S,eds (2024) African Venice: A Guide to Art, Culture and People, Wetlands, Venezia
Kolfin, E. and Runia, E.,eds (2020) Black in Rembrandt's Time, WBOOKS, Zwolle
Kolfin E. and Schreuder E. (eds.) (2008) Black is Beautiful. Rubens to Dumas, Waanders Publishers
Marsh J. ed (2005) Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900, Manchester Art Gallery and Birmingham Museums And Art Gallery, Lund Humphries, Aldershot and Burlington
Murrell D. (2019) Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, The Yale University Press
Ohajuru, M. ed (2025) Who Is John Blanke? Artists and Historians Reimagine the Black Tudor Trumpeter, Canbury, London see BLOG for more
Proctor, A (2020) The Whole Picture, Cassel, London
Pullins, D. & Valdés , K. V. (2023) Juan De Pareja: Afro Hispanic Painter in the Age of Veláquez The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Temi Odumosu (2018) Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour Brepols Publishers MY REVIEW
Thomas, S. (2023) Witnessing Slavery : Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition Paul Mellon Centre For Studies of British Art, New Haven and London
Black History
Abraham K. & Woolf J Black Victorians: Hidden in History, Duckworth, MY REVIEW
Adi, H. (2022) African and Caribbean People in Britain:A History Allen Lane .
Adi, H , editor (2019) Black British History: New Perspectives, ZED, London
Alston, D. (2021) Slaves and Highlanders, Edinburgh University Press, Stockport
Blyden, N, editor (2021) The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, DK Publishing
Chater, K (2021) Henry Box Brown: From Slavery to Show Business, McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, USA MY REVIEW
Chater, K (2009) Untolde Histories:Black People in England and Wales During the Period of the British Slave Trade, c.1660-1807, McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina, USA
Correia, A (editor), (2022) What is Black Art: Writings on African, Asian and Caribbean Art in Britain, 1981-1989, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York
Fryer P. (1984) Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain, Pluto Press, London
Gerzina, Gretchen H. editor (2020) Britain's Black Past, Liverpool University Press, Lancaster
Green T. (2019) A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution , Allen Lane
Habib, I (2007) Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677: Imprints of the Invisible, Routledge
Hudson, S (2021) History Through The Black Experience: Volume One January to June, Next Generation Publishing
Hudson, S (2021) History Through The Black Experience: Volume Two July to Dec, Next Generation Publishing
Boukman Academy (2021) The Black Past: A History of African People Boukman Academy
McGrath, E. & Massing, J. M. (editors), (2012) The Slave in European Art: From Renaissance Trophy to Abolition Emblem, Warburg Institute
Hall, R. with illustrations by Hugo Martînez, (2021) WAKE:THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF WOMEN LED-SLAVE REVOLTS , Simon & Schuster, New York MY REVIEW
Hondius, D., (2017) Blackness in Western Europe: Racial Patterns of Paternalism and Exclusion Routledge, London and New York
Otele, O, (2020), African Europeans: An Untold History , Routledge, Hurst, London
Olusoga D. (2016) Black and British: A Forgotten History , Macmillan, London
Olusoga D. (2020) Black and British: A Short, Essential History , Macmillan, London
Onyeka, (Oct 2013) Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Their Presence, Status and Origins MY REVIEW
Kaufmann, M. (2017) Black Tudors, Oneworld, London
Mischa Honeck, Martin Klimke, and Anne Kuhlmann editors, (2013) GERMANY AND THE BLACK DIASPORA Points of Contact, 1250-1914 Berghahn Books
Matera, M. (2015) Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century, University of California Press
Scobie, E (1994) Global African Presence, EWORLD Inc, New York
Vernon, P. & Osbourne , A (2020) 100 Great Black Britons, Robinson, London
Walker R. (2006) When We Ruled , Every Generation Media, London
Eds Dabydeen D. Gilmore J. & Jones C. (2008) The Oxford Companion to Black British History , Oxford University Press, Gosport
van Pelt, N.T. (2023) Intercultural Explorations and the Court of Henry VIII. Oxford Textual Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Black Magus
MacGregor N. with Langmuir E. (2000) Seeing Salvation: Images of Christ in Art Yale University Press, New Haven &London
Eds Beer M., Struab K., Metje I., Werth S., & Woeirk M. (2015), The Magi: Legend, Art and Cult , Himer, Munich
Eds Collins K. & Keene C. K. (2023), Balthazar: An African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art ,Getty, Los Angeles
Michael Ohajuru 2008 OU Essay on the Black Magus http://bit.ly/Black_Magus
Misogynoir and the History of the Image of the Black African Woman in Western European Art
READ:
Black Lives Reclaimed to Matter
https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/author-and-historians/black-lives-reclaimed-to-matter/
How black women were whitewashed by art
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190114-how-black-women-were-whitewashed-by-art
WATCH:
Why is the Queen of Sheba portrayed as white?
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p07zy99k/why-is-the-queen-of-sheba-portrayed-as-white-?
Moses and his Black Bride
https://youtu.be/bAB9yNNKCoM
Black Exhibitions
Get Up Stand Up - Somerset House, London 12 Jun – 15 Sep 2019
No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990 - The Guildhall Art Gallery, London 10 Jul 2015 - 24 Jan 2016
Black models: from Géricault to Matisse - Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 26 Mar - 21 Jul 2019
On Being Present - The Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Online Here MY REVIEW
Black in Rembrandt’s Time - Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam - 6 Mar to 31 May 2020
Life Between the Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s -Now - Tate Britain - 1 Dec 2021 to 3 Apr 2022
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance, The Fitzwilliam Museum, 8 September 2023 - 7 January 2024
Entangled Pasts :1768 - NOW: Art, Colonialism and Change - Royal Academy, 2 February - 28 April 2024
Renaissance and Art
Harrison C. (2009) An Introduction to Art , Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Baxendale M. (1988) Painting & Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Hale J. (1993) The Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance, Harper Collins, Bath
Kemp M. (1997) Behind the Picture, Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Honour H. & Fleming J. (1999) A History of World Art, Laurence King Publishing, London
Web Sites
http://bit.ly/BlacksInRenaissanceEurope The presenter’s writings on the Black presence in Renaissance Europe
http://bit.ly/MirandaKaufmann Author of Black Tudors
http://bit.ly/MedievalPOC Images of black in art from the period some with descriptions
http://JohnBlanke.com The presenter’s John Blanke Art & Archive project
https://blackcentraleurope.com/ Black presence in Medieval and Renaissance Germany
https://edspace.american.edu/blurredlinesblackafricans/ Person, Object, and Aesthetic: Black Africans in European Art, 1300-1700
Podcasts/Radio
Bonnie Greer, In Search of Black History, Audible, (2019), https://bit.ly/InSearchOfBlackHistory
Nikole Hannah-Jones, 1619, New York Times (2019), https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/podcasts/the-daily/1619-project.html
Judith Koch (Deutschlandfunkkultur) (2019) „„Image of the Black in London Galleries“ Ein Rundgang mit Michael Ohajuru Von Judith Koch", https://bit.ly/IBLG_JudithKoch
Professor Gretchen GerzinaaBBC Radio 4 BRITAIN'S BLACK PAST https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yvszg
BBC Radio 4 Moving Pictures The Feast of Herod by Peter Paul Rubens https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00127y6
Pod Save the World Covering underreported news in race, culture, justice & equity https://www.instagram.com/podsavethepeople
Make It Plain aims to amplify the voices of [The Black] community, highlight the issues that matter, and underline their specific relevance to [The Black] people. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/make-it-plain-podcast/id1704329498?i=1000716065911
The Grio Daily Wickedly smart and unapologetically honest, Michael Harriot breaks down the systems affecting Black lives—like white supremacy and police brutality—with barbershop wit and professor-level insight on TheGrio Daily. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thegrio-daily-michael-harriot/id1630818079?i=1000654141629
The History Hotline, a direct line to a better understanding of all things Black history and beyond. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-history-hotline/id1528852665
Slavery and the City of London https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gresham-college-lectures/id989163962?i=1000546899336
Seeing White In the powerful fourteen-part series Seeing White, host John Biewen and Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika unpack the history, meaning, and purpose of whiteness, exposing how today’s racial injustices are rooted in an old and enduring story.
https://sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
Black, African and British https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001v3cn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Online Short Course
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
Discover the little-known history of Black Africans in Tudor England and challenge your preconceptions of Black history.
Benin Bronzes
Phillips, B (2021) Loot: Britain and The Benin Bronzes, Oneworld, London
Hicks, D. (2020) The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, Pluto Press, London
Robertson, G. (2019) Who Owns History: Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure, Biteback Publishing, London
Green, T, (2019) A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution; Allen Lane, London
BBC Radio 4
Gary Younge The Empty Cases
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lyyd
updated July 2025
