A Lot of black people fall into this category.
*nakey wasn't actually naked just not as many clothes as europeans thought they should have because they based wealth and superiority on material goods.
Lot of black african men had circumcised Dicks and christian europeans associated circumcision with judaism and that make u bad/the enemy ergo black people are the enemy.
Lot of visual links and cultural association with Black people and Gold, Specifically Gold Jewelry in the Renaissance era.
Gold showed the richness of Africa as a continent but the inferiority of the Africans who wore it.
?????Only Jewish Girls and African people wore earrings meaning earrings are bad.
Usage of Gold and jewelry for decoration ie armlets chains anklets and collars began to represent the bonds of slavery. They used the accessories as a way of chaining up slaves and using the culture and fashion of a people and turning it into a symbol of oppression.
Something called "the laughing black" stereotype where a black slave was seen as carefree because they're too stupid to understand the misery of their own situation.
"Slaves are always happy they do nothing but laugh"(Oliveira 1578)
A Phrase Used before You can't change a leopard's spots. "To Wash an Ethiopian white is to labour in vain"
Black Skin = Deformity
For white to be considered beautiful black must be considered a deformity.
Mantegna and Correggio use of the subordinated dark skinned women
Isabella D'Este liked collecting young black children and wanted a young black girl between the ages of 1 1/2 & 4, who was 'As black as possible" (Kaplan 2005)
Andrea Mantegna depicted these fantasy loyal dark skinned servants egar to woek, exotasising black women and adding to the concept of otherness.
Contrast Albrecht Dürer's portrait of Katherine showed the harsher realities of a melancholic but dignified slave.
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| One of the rare depictions of a named black person |
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