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| Keywords: Italian - Plaque with the Personification of Africa (?) - Walters 52150.jpg This depiction of a beautiful woman as a hunter indicated by her footwear from outside of Europe signaled by her exotically decorated drapery is puzzling Iron was rarely used for art because it was hard to work especially to create fine detail To introduce the detail sculptors turned to gold Similar plaques decorated a splendid casket commissioned by Emperor Maximilian II This use of iron may take advantage of the metal's color to depict a black African possibly as a personification of the continent Africa one of the four continents along with Europe Asia and America then known to Europeans ca 1550 1575 Early Modern stamped gilded iron cm 14 2 7 2 accession number 52 150 24252 Frédéric Spitzer Paris by purchase Sale Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim April 17 1893 no Joseph Brummer New York by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 place of origin Milan Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance reliefs in the Walters Art Museum Plaquettes Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Italian - Plaque with the Personification of Africa (?) - Walters 52150.jpg This depiction of a beautiful woman as a hunter indicated by her footwear from outside of Europe signaled by her exotically decorated drapery is puzzling Iron was rarely used for art because it was hard to work especially to create fine detail To introduce the detail sculptors turned to gold Similar plaques decorated a splendid casket commissioned by Emperor Maximilian II This use of iron may take advantage of the metal's color to depict a black African possibly as a personification of the continent Africa one of the four continents along with Europe Asia and America then known to Europeans ca 1550 1575 Early Modern stamped gilded iron cm 14 2 7 2 accession number 52 150 24252 Frédéric Spitzer Paris by purchase Sale Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim April 17 1893 no Joseph Brummer New York by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum 1931 by bequest Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 place of origin Milan Italy Walters Art Museum license Renaissance reliefs in the Walters Art Museum Plaquettes Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
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