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minus-squareRealitätsverlust@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·23 hours agoProbably because 95% oft all people in the medieval age and prior (where this specific depiction of portrait-jesus emerged) have never seen a black person all their life - including artists. Can’t blame people for drawing people as they know them.
minus-squareShezzagrad@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoThey’ve seen Arabs and Semites haven’t they… The land where jesus is from. Why you talking like jesus is from the heart of Africa
minus-squareJiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·16 hours agoYeah the Moors controlled the Iberian peninsula for nearly 800 years from 711-1492.
minus-squareKornblumenratte@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours agoThe moors were mostly Arabs and Berbers, though.
minus-squareJiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoYes, and Jesus was from the middle east, so the people of europe would not be unaware of what people from there might look like.
Probably because 95% oft all people in the medieval age and prior (where this specific depiction of portrait-jesus emerged) have never seen a black person all their life - including artists. Can’t blame people for drawing people as they know them.
They’ve seen Arabs and Semites haven’t they… The land where jesus is from. Why you talking like jesus is from the heart of Africa
Nah, Europe had black people.
Yeah the Moors controlled the Iberian peninsula for nearly 800 years from 711-1492.
The moors were mostly Arabs and Berbers, though.
Yes, and Jesus was from the middle east, so the people of europe would not be unaware of what people from there might look like.