Filippino Lippi, Madonna and Child, c. 1483–84, tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 81.3 x 59.7 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), an Expanding Renaissance Initiative video. Speakers: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris
Additional resources
Read about this painting on The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website
Learn more about the expanding the renaissance initiative
Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art on the Google Art Project
Read more about Filippino Lippi on The Heilbrunn Timeline
T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe, eds., Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge, 2005
Joaneath Spicer, ed., Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe (Baltimore: The Walters Museum, 2013)
