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Remapping the "Paris" Art World in Haiti/Saint-Domingue - https://www.colonialnetworks.org/ - Project Directors: Meredith Martin (NYU) and Hannah Williams (QMUL)

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Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · last yr.

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Screenshot of the website header for slavesinparis.org comprising a drawing of the Place des Victoires in 18th-century Paris

Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · last yr.

New post on Colonial Networks: Esther Chadwick writes on "The Academy of Drawing and Painting at Sans-Souci, 1816-17", the art school in the new Kingdom of Haiti www.colonialnetworks.org?p=840

Detail from Evan's portrait of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti, showing his head and shoulders

Colonial Networks @colnet.bsky.social · last yr.

New post on Colonial Networks: Oliver Wunsch writes about "Fleuriau's Skin" www.colonialnetworks.org?p=849

Detail of a pastel portrait by Perronneau showing the face of Fleuriau