Are black people being added to old European paintings? ( conspiracy )

submitted by 00the00virus00

I know this is an insane theory, but considering our clown world, it is worthy of consideration.

Here is a picture of: The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Reading Abbey on 19 May 1359 by Horace Wright (1914),

https://files.catbox.moe/1jlw1a.jpg

On the middle right there is what looks to be a black boy, now I heavily doubt there were black children in Lancaster in 1359, especially in a Royal family. Do you think this was added sometimes recently? I've also seen this in many other paintings, a black person here and there, usually they are supposed to have been "slaves" but I don't believe they existed in this number.

the_art_collector

Africans have lived in Europe for centuries due to trade / wars with the Moors. Pretty sure I saw a statue of a knight somewhere with a fairly African face. A duke of Florence, Alessandro de Medici was supposedly half-Moor and certainly looked like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_de%27_Medici,_Duke_of_Florence

You've seen the Garden of Earthly delights, right?

https://files.catbox.moe/6zgyec.jpg

All-White Europe and Neo-marxist half-Black Europe are both fantasies. Yeah the commies are up to fuckery but the actual history of Europe is more dynamic than what the 20th century conservatives taught in schools.

udo

Its a modern 1914 painting, not from the era.

But you have a point, lots of negroes keep trying to claim they see negroes in revolutionary war photos of PATRIOT STATESMEN! (it is usually a shadow across a face).

In this case I get your point. THERE WERE some DARK ARABS in medieval england but a low IQ pure bred negro would be a liability not an asset and not in a court.

GhostRyder

White people ignore persians and moores all the time.

bosunmoon

It was pretty common to have a token black guy back then. It was a very exotic and high class thing to do. To have a painting made depicting it would be pretty believable. I'm pretty sure this painting hasn't been modified.