In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in three large-format volumes that quickly became collector's items. A half-century later, Harvard University Press and the Du Bois Institute are proud to publish a complete set of ten sumptuous books, including new editions of the original volumes and two additional ones. Europe and the World Beyond focuses geographically on peoples of South America and the Mediterranean as well as Africa-but conceptually it emphasizes the many ways that visual constructions of blacks mediated between Europe and a faraway African continent that was impinging ever more closely on daily life, especially in cities and ports engaged in slave trade.

Dr. Jean Michel Massing is a Reader in the History of Art and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. The first volume of Studies in Imagery, Text and Images consists of 25 studies grouped under four sections: Classical Art and its Nachleben; Symbolic Languages; Saints and Devils; Comets, Dreams and Stars. The topics include the Celto-Roman goddess Epona, the Calumny of Apelles and its reconstructions, the Triumph of Caesar, proverb illustration, the art of memory, emblematic and didactic imagery, the temptations of St Anthony, as well as dreams and celestial phenomena. They span a wide range of periods, from classical antiquity to the nineteenth century. This volume, The World Discovered, deals variously with the relationship of European with non-European cultures, cartography in medieval and early modern times, the representation of foreign lands and people, and the collecting of exotic artefacts. A central theme involves the imagery of black Africans from the Middle Ages up to the nineteenth century. Volume II Contents: Introduction Cartography. Observations and Beliefs: The World of the Catalan Atlas La mappemonde de Pierre Desceliers de 1550 The World Described. Hans Burgkmair's Depiction of Native Africans Early European Images of America: The Ethnographic Approach Albrecht Duerer's Irish Warriors and Peasants The image of Africa and the iconography of lip-plated Africans in Pierre Descelier's world map of 1550 The Image of Blackness. From Greek Proverb to Soap Advert: Washing the Ethiopian Washing the Ethiopian or the Semantics of an Impossibility Washing the Ethiopian, once more Kunskammern and Collections. The Quest of the Exotic: Albrecht Duerer in the Netherlands Pacific Cultures. Nicolas Joseph Hamann and the Material Culture of the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) In Arms and Armour. Battles in the Gilbert Islands Index.

Dr. Jean Michel Massing is a Reader in the History of Art and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. This first volume of Studies in Imagery, Text and Images consists of 25 studies grouped under four sections: Classical Art and its Nachleben; Symbolic Languages; Saints and Devils; Comets, Dreams and Stars. The topics include: the Celto-Roman goddess Epona, the Calumny of Apelles and its reconstructions, the Triumph of Caesar, proverb illustration, the art of memory, emblematic and didactic imagery, the temptations of St Anthony, as well as dreams and celestial phenomena. They span a wide range of periods, from classical antiquity to the nineteenth century. Volume I Contents: Introduction Classical Art and its Nachleben: Le culte d'Epona dans les vallees de la Sarre et de la Blies Le devant de sarcophage romain de l'ancienne collection Huber: une copie d'apres P.S. Bartoli Nicola da Urbino and Signorelli's lost Calumny of Apelles A few more Calumnies. Lucian and the Visual Arts The Illustrations of Lucian's Imago vitae aulicae Jacobus Argentoratensis. Etude preliminaire The Triumph of Caesar by Jacobus Argentoratensis. Its Iconography and Influence . . . huit pieces du triomphe de Cesar for the Emperor Maximilian Veleda, Susanna, Boadicea or Dorothy: Antiquarian Discussions on some Sixteenth-century Bricks Symbolic Languages: Proverbial Wisdom and Social Criticism: two new pages from the Walters Art Gallery's Proverbes en Rimes Proverbes en Rimes et Dictz moraulx pour faire tapisserie. New material on old topics Casting flowers to swine: From the proverbial to the emblematic pig A New Work by Francois Du Moulin and the Problem of Pre-Emblematic Traditions The Broad and Narrow Way. From German Pietists to English Open-Air Preachers Laurent Fries et son Ars memorativa. La cathedrale de Strasbourg comme espace mnemonique From Manuscript to Engravings. Late Medieval Mnemonic Bibles Autour de quelques essais musicaux inedits de Durer (with Christian Meyer) Saints and Devils: Gert van Lon's Madonna in the Rosary L'iconographie de l'agression de saint Antoine de Grunewald The Iconography of Schongauer's Tribulations of St Anthony and the influence of this Print on German Art 'Sicut erat in diebus Antonii'. The devils under the bridge in the Tribulations of St Anthony by Hieronymus Bosch in Lisbon Schongauer, Bosch, Grunewald et les autres. De quelques Tribulations de saint Antoine et de leurs influences Three Panels by the Master of the View of Sainte-Gudule in the Chapel of Queens' College, Cambridge Comets, Dreams and Stars: Der Stern des Giotto. Naturschilderung und Symbolismus in der Kometenikonographie des XIII und XIV Jahrhunderts Durer's Dreams A Sixteenth-century Illustrated Treatise on Comets Index.