Laura Gascoigne

You don’t have to be ‘woke’ to be troubled by the Fitzwilliam Museum’s links to slavery

Black Atlantic, the first of three planned exhibitions to adopt a multiracial approach to colonial history, will go too far for some and not far enough for others

The first painted portrait of a black man, thought to be the bodyguard of Charles V or a courtier of Margaret of Austria: ‘Portrait of an African Man’, c.1525-30, by Jan Mostaert. Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 
issue 23 September 2023
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