Conférence : Patricia Rubin, « Titian and the “Ethiop’s ear” », Londres, The Courtauld, 6 octobre 2023
With a small, but significant or rather signifying detail – pink earrings – Titian colour-coded the Africans in his paintings. This consistent marking out of difference refers, however, to fluid and fluctuating concepts of Africa and that continent’s inhabitants. Occurring in different pictorial genres (portraits, poesie, and religious paintings), Titian’s Africans play different roles and have different subject positions. In their variety they register both alterity and the complexity represented by Africa as a legendary...