Beauté Noire , Beauté Nôtre

Quick stop at the Lekki Arts and Crafts Market

                              The Celebration Of Beauty (Series 1)

1. Hyacinthe Rigaud Young Man With a Bow France (c. 1697) 

2. Alessandro Longhi Portrait of a Young Black Man Italy (c. 1760s)

3. Circle of Jan Gossaert The Adoration of the Kings (detail) (c. 1520s)

4. Luca Giordano, Saint Francis Xavier Baptizing Proselytes and Saint Francis,Borgia, Italy (c. 1680s)

5. Anonymous, after Hugo van der Goes. Adoration of the Magi Netherlands (c. 1500) 

6. Diego Rodríguez da Silva y Velázquez. The Adoration of the Magi, 1619

7. Anton Domenico Gabbiani  Portrait of Three Musicians of the Medici Court (detail) Italy (c. 1687) 

8. “Abdullah, Chief of Said Pasha’s Bodyguard” (1873) Carl Haag 

9. Juan Batista Maíno  Adoration of the Kings, (detail) Spain (c. 1612) 

Two Egyptian canopic jars, ca. 670 BC-640 BC (Late Period).

During mummification, the internal organs of the deceased were removed from the body and placed in a set of four special containers, the so-called canopic jars. The lids of the jars depicted the heads of a hawk, a human, a jackal, and a baboon, each associated with one of the four “Sons of Horus,” the deities responsible for protecting the organs. Responsible for the liver was the human-headed Imsety, while the hawk-headed Qebehsenuef protected the intestines. (Walters)