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Blackamoor is a type of figure and visual trope in European decorative art, typically found in works from the Early Modern period, depicting a man of sub-Saharan African descent, usually in clothing that suggests high status. Common examples of items and objects decorated in the blackamoor style include sculpture, jewellery, and furniture.
Blackamoors may refer to: . Blackamoor (decorative arts), stylized depictions of black Africans in the decorative arts and jewelry Blackmoor (campaign setting), a fantasy roleplaying game campaign setting
Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origins is a 2013 non-fiction book by British historian and writer Onyeka Nubia that explores the history of Black people in Tudor-era England.
The lyrics of the comic opera The Blackamoor Wash'd White (1776) by Henry Bate Dudley have been quoted as perpetuating negative racist stereotypes. [19] In 1805 the writer William Godwin , using the pen-name Edward Baldwin, included the fable (under the title "Washing the Blackamoor White") in his Fables ancient and modern, adapted for the use ...
The Moor of Peter the Great (Russian: Арап Петра Великого, romanized: Arap Petra Velikogo, also translated as The Blackamoor of Peter the Great or The Negro of Peter the Great) is an unfinished historical novel by Alexander Pushkin. Written in 1827–1828 and first published in 1837, the novel is the first prose work of the ...
Morianbron (Swedish: Blackamoor Bridge) is a small bridge in the gardens of the Ulriksdal Palace in Solna, Sweden, named after the pair of sculptures of so-called blackamoors (e.g. black Moors) standing by the bridge. Arguably the smallest bridge in the Swedish capital, it also passes over the indeed small stream Igelbäcken flowing through the ...
The dark skin complexion of the Moor bandit (hence the terms "Blackimore" and "Blackamoor"). The name of the wood where the outlaw lived in Kirkcudbrightshire: "Black Morrow (Plantation)". [12] The crimes, evil nature or grim personality of the bandit. MacRitchie argued for the first view, and that the outlaw was dark skinned.
Secret Seal: On the image of the Blackamoor in European Heraldry, a PBS article. Encyclopedia – Britannica Online Encyclopedia (2006) Khalid Amine, Moroccan Shakespeare: From Moors to Moroccans. Paper presented at an International Conference Organized by The Postgraduate School of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham ...