The slave in European art : from Renaissance trophy to abolitionist emblem

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Contents From: The Art Newspaper, 241, December 2012Preface Introduction: Reality and Metaphor Elizabeth McGrath, Caryatids, Page Boys, and African Fetters: Themes of Slavery in European art Charles Robertson, Allegory and Ambiguity in Michelangelo's 'Slaves' Jean-Luc Liez, L'esclavage comme metaphore religieuse dans l'iconographie de l'ordre des Trinitaires Galley Slaves and Moorish Captives Jean Michel Massing, The Iconography of Mediterranean Slavery in the Seventeenth Century Rick Scorza, Messina 1535 to Lepanto 1571. Vasari, Borghini and the Imagery of Moors, Barbarians and Turks Anthea Brook, From Borgo Pinti to Doccia: The Afterlife of Pietro Tacca's Moors for Livorno Europe, the Americas and the Slave Trade Carmen Fracchia, The Urban Slave in Spain and New Spain Ernst van den Boogaart, Black Slavery and the 'Mulatto Escape Hatch' in the Brazilian Ensembles of Frans Post and Albert Eckhout Elmer Kolfin, Becoming Human. The Iconography of Black Slavery in French, British and Dutch Book Illustrations c. 1600-c. 1800 Abolitionism and its Critics Meredith Gamer, George Morland's 'Slave Trade' and 'African Hospitality': Slavery, Sentiment and the Limits of the Abolitionist Image' David Bindman, 'They are a Happy People': Some Newly Identified Pro-slavery Caricatures from the Age of Abolition Temi Odumosu, Abolitionists, African Diplomats and 'the Black Joke' in George Cruikshank's 'New Union Club'

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