An Overlooked Color In a Medici Portrait?; Girl's History Raises Questions About Art Studies

The Washington Post | November 25, 2001| | Copyright

She looks like an ordinary little girl, holding the hand of an ordinary woman. But the 16th-century painting of young Giulia de' Medici with her aunt on display at the National Gallery of Art, is now considered to be the first European portrait to capture a girl of African descent.

How the granddaughter of a slave came to be painted with a member of one of the richest and most powerful families in Italian history - - and painted out many years later -- reads like a script from "Dynasty" and sheds light on a little-studied period of African- European relations.

The girl's identity was ...

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