Moors at the Prado Museum in Madrid :: Museo Nacional Del Prado :: Black Nobility & commoners

Although a great deal of Moorish Art history was destroyed over the past 500 or so years due to colonialism and various book and artwork burnings over the centuries, a few relics have survived. Here are a number of of Paitings with Moors (people of the African Diaspora) at the Prado Museum in Spain’s capital of Madrid. There are a lot of amazing large scale oil painting works at this museum from that go as far back as the 1400’s. Most of the works featuring Moors, however, are European renderings of the same Christian magi story surrounding the birth of Jesus. Out side of these examples, the other two images depict a dark ages society where moors were either outsiders to the madness or victims of it. Notice the 3 different types of Moorish garbs each magi is wearing in each of the paintings. We also noticed this museum has the very rare Albrect Durer self portrait (not shown in this film). His name is important regarding the black art history that has been erased due to the fact that Durer’s eastern European family had to actually buy the Black Nobility (Moor) name øf Durer before Queen Isabella expelled the Moors from Spain in the late 1400’s. How can we prove the last name Durer was Moorish? If you look at his own family crest that his father purchased, the Face of the man is a dark skinned German of African descent. Also notice theres another moor in the background of the triptych painting by Hans Memling entitled “Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi” or “Triptico de la Adoracion de los Magos”. This painting is said to be the earliest know representation of a black king in the museums description yet we beg to differ giving the newfound ancient artwork and scuppltures representing black kings all over the world. We guess they must not be counting Egyptian paintings obviously. Its interesting to note that one of the ppl in the crowd behind the Black King in the thumbnail is carrying a flag with a moor on it. Wonder which nation the person holding the flag was reppin…. Definitely check this museum out If you ever pass thru Madrid located at Paseo del Prado, s/n, 28014 Madrid, Spain. It has a vast array of some of the great European works. A+