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artblackafrica:
Senegalese fine art photographer Omar Victor Diop’s 'Project Diaspora' (Self Portraits, 2014) recreates baroque paintings of notable Africans living in Europe in the 15th -19th centuries. His work aims to image the less-spoken aspects of African identity, the history of the African diaspora and it’s continuities in modern-day Europe.
Works:
A Moroccan Man (1913). Original Painting by José Tapiro y Baro.
Don Miguel de Castro (1643). Delegate of Sonho, a province of Congo. Original painting attributed to Jaspar Beck or Albert Eckout.
Dom Nicolau (Circa. 1830-1860). Dom Nicolau, prince of Kongo is perhaps the earliest African leader to publicly protest colonial influences. Nicolau, protested against Portuguese commercial and political activity and military expansion by publishing a letter in a Portuguese newspaper in Lisbon.
Jean-Baptiste Belley (1746 - 1805). a native of Senegal, born on the Island of Gorée and former slave from Saint-Domingue in the French West Indies who bought his freedom with his savings. During the period of the French Revolution, he became a member of the National Convention and the Council of Five Hundred of France. He was also known as Mars. Original painting by Girodet
Juan de Pareja (1606 – 1670). Juan de Pareja was a Spanish painter, born in Antequera, near Málaga, Spain. He was an assistant to painter Diego Velázquez. Original Painting by Diego Velasquez.