What do the rosy cheeks of a young woman have to do with the history of slavery? In the European aristocracy of the early modern period, it was customary at engagements to present the groom with a portrait of his fiancée, which was intended to express her beauty, health and grace. The way the women were painted not only indicated contemporary artistic taste, but also reflected social ideas of the time. Thus, engagement paintings in the 16th and 18th centuries were quite different from each other as Prof. Dr. Craig Koslofsky observes at the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois. After all, whiteness had become an essential social distinguishing feature as a result of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism.
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