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- Title
African Presences and Representations in the Principality/Markgrafschaft of Bayreuth.
- Authors
BREITINGER, ECKHARD
- Abstract
The article focuses on African presence and artistic representations in Europe through the principality of Bayreuth. African representations have reportedly been used by artists for artistic and Christian purposes, wherein the martyrs came from Northern Africa. The Africans who were recognized by Europeans include North African Saint Augustine, patron saint of Saxony Saint Maurice, and Balthazar, one of the three Wise Men who visited Jesus in Bethlehem, Judea.
- Subjects
EUROPE; AFRICA; CREATIVE ability; AFRICAN literature; SAINTS; MAGI
- Publication
Cross / Cultures: Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English, 2011, Vol 130, p107
- ISSN
0924-1426
- Publication type
Article