medievalpoc:1800s Week!Charles CordierBust of a Black Moorish WomanFrance (1856)Cordier was known fo
medievalpoc:1800s Week!Charles CordierBust of a Black Moorish WomanFrance (1856)Cordier was known for his portrait busts of subjects considered “ethnographic” to Europeans. Although his own attitudes toward his works and the people he depicted made little difference in how they were received, his comments might be of interest:“Beauty does not belong to a single, privileged race. I have promoted throughout the world of art the idea that beauty is everywhere. Every race has its own beauty, which differs from that of others. The most beautiful black person is not the one who looks most like us.” -- source link