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[https://www.britannica.com/art/African-art/Sculpture-and-associated-arts by Frank Willett Britannica] | [https://www.britannica.com/art/African-art/Sculpture-and-associated-arts by Frank Willett Britannica] | ||
Although wood is the best-known medium of African sculpture, many others are employed: copper alloys, iron, ivory, pottery, unfired clay, and, infrequently, stone. Unfired clay is—and probably always was—the most widely used medium in the whole continent, but, partly because it is so fragile and therefore difficult to collect, it has been largely ignored in the literature. Small figurines of fired clay were excavated in a mound at Daima near Lake Chad in levels dating from the 5th century bce or earlier, while others were found in Zimbabwe in deposits of the later part of the 1st millennium CE. | Although wood is the best-known medium of African sculpture, many others are employed: copper alloys, iron, ivory, pottery, unfired clay, and, infrequently, stone. Unfired clay is—and probably always was—the most widely used medium in the whole continent, but, partly because it is so fragile and therefore difficult to collect, it has been largely ignored in the literature. Small figurines of fired clay were excavated in a mound at Daima near Lake Chad in levels dating from the 5th century bce or earlier, while others were found in Zimbabwe in deposits of the later part of the 1st millennium CE. | ||
=====Before the Renaissance: African Art in the Age of Antiquity===== | |||
[https://www.monroeblackheritagemuseum.org/blog/african-art-in-antiquity by Art & Heritage] | |||
Long before the first brushstroke of a Raphael or da Vinci, African artists were casting bronze, carving stone, and shaping spiritual and social life through forms of astonishing power and sophistication. While many museums and textbooks still trace the origins of “high art” to the European Renaissance, the truth is far older, more global—and far more African. | |||
