Documentary Screening: We Were Here - The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe

From the venue:

The Department of French and Italian is happy to invite you to the documentary screening of We Were Here - The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. 

The screening will be on Tuesday, March 18th at 7:30pm at Emory University, White Hall 208. The director Fred Kuwornu will be present at the screening for a Q&A session.

We Were Here - The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, exhibited in the Central Pavilion directed by Adriano Pedrosa at the 60ᵗʰ International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, sheds light on the overlooked presence of African and Black individuals in Renaissance Europe, highlighting their depiction in masterpieces by some of the era’s most celebrated artists. How did they come to Europe? Why were they portrayed? Were they truly all servants or slaves? If the Black faces portrayed in these Renaissance masterpieces could speak, what would they tell us?