Final chapters bring the story up to date

Eckhart Gillen

including the Sistine Chapel ceiling and the Medici Chapel tombs

the image was inspired by a lost Greek statue of Hercules dating around the mid 300s BCE

as artists developed their own unique — and often experimental — processes

Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art illumination Final chapters bring the storyEdited by Kristen Collins and Bryan C. Keene With an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. This abundantly illustrated book examines the figure of Balthazar, one of the biblical magi, and explains how and why he came to be depicted as a Black African king. According to the Gospel of Matthew, magi from the East, following a star, traveled to Jerusalem bearing precious gifts for the infant Jesus. The magi were revered as wise men and later as kings.