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Ayuba Suleiman Diallo was from a prominent family of Muslim clerics in West Africa (Senegal). He was kidnapped & enslaved in the U.S. in 1730, escaped to England in 1733, & became a celebrity before returning home:
https://t.co/rGaVb3fbQI
portrait by William Hoare of Bath, 1733
Jan Mostaert
Portrait of an African Man (possibly Christoph le More, attendant of Charles V. Holy Roman Emperor 1519-56 )
Netherlands (c. 1525)
Oil on Panel, 30.8cm × 21.2cm.
@rijksmuseum
https://t.co/7QrMNULWWY
Jeanne de Montbaston; Historia de Proeliis [Royal 19 D I]
f. 77v: The Battle of Genghis Khan and Prester John
France (1340)
Illuminated Manuscript, 425 x 310
@BLMedieval
https://t.co/rGbmO1tad0
FREE Black History Month Classroom Poster by @schweizercomics, downloadable HERE: https://t.co/hvMHtlGPf3
Huang Ya Dong was a celebrity in England in the 1770s; he is known to have advised Josiah Wedgewood about the production of Chinese porcelain, & explained the principles of acupuncture to physician Andrew Duncan. This portrait of him was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Aurora Consurgens (att: St. Thomas Aquinas or “Pseudo-Aquinas”)
f. 34v: Black Female Angel
Germany (c. 1420s)
Parchment Codex with Watercolor Miniatures, 20.4 x 13.9 cm.
Zürich, Zentralbibliothek
https://t.co/hHWLsif5GZ
Hmm. How would people feel if I started an "1800s Week" on Twitter this Monday? It'd be stuff like this:
Thomas Hickey
An Indian Lady
Ireland (c. 1787)
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
https://t.co/A9FNmvC1o3
Maerten de Vos
The Adoration of the Magi (detail)
Netherlands (c. 1550s)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes
LEARN HISTORY.
Nicklaus Glockenden I
Saint Maurice and His Companions
Germany (1524)
Missal of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg, f.437v