SAPI EXPORT IVORIES AND MANUELINE ART: A CONNECTED HISTORY

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作者
Afonso, Luis Urbano [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lisbon, Sch Arts & Humanities, Dept Hist, Alameda Univ, P-1600214 Lisbon, Portugal
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connected art history; Afro-Portuguese ivories; Sapi art; Manueline art; late Gothic; early Renaissance;
D O I
10.1484/J.VIATOR.5.130904
中图分类号
I [文学]; K [历史、地理];
学科分类号
05 ; 06 ;
摘要
This paper employs a connected art history approach to study the artistic links between West Africa and Portugal ca. 1500. First, it reviews the extent of European art's impact on African export ivories, specifically those produced along the coast of present-day Sierra Leone by Sapi peoples. Then, it offers an analysis of the impact of these ivories on the development of Manueline art in Portugal, whose empirical nature favored the assimilation of quite different artistic contributions within a late Gothic framework. While European inputs to the structure, layout, and iconography of Sapi export ivories are easily recognizable and have been acknowledged for a long time, their effect on Manueline art is less obvious and has been explained the other way around. By questioning the unidirectionality of this flux and highlighting the reciprocity of artistic transfers, this paper underlines West Africa's contribution to artistic innovation in Europe ca. 1500.
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页码:431 / 463
页数:33
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