Anonymous said: Its pretty sad that someone who studies ancient mediterranean appreciates medievalpoc. That shitty blog simply erases euromediterranean peoples claiming that any not blonde-blue eyed person in european art is a person of color. I mean it really gets ridicolous, Its like if they dont recognize greeks or southern italians exist. Their americanocentric white people vs poc mindset should be loathed, not appreciated.

ahaaaa dude do you not think that there are enough places in the world for you to find artistic representation of white people??

you may have noticed that medievalpoc is a blog on the internet whilst the Renaissance was a massive artistic movement drawing heavily from the Classical Greek and Roman periods and glorifying dark haired white people (i.e. the very demographic of ‘euromediterranean peoples’ you are bringing up) even when the subjects they are portraying were never intended to be white*

and wait!!! there are many more western art movements with images of white people for you to peruse!!!! why don’t you start by looking in literally any major art gallery!!!!!!!!!!!

It is not sad that a student of ancient history and art appreciates a resource for greater diversity in her research. tbh it’s not even very noteworthy.



*Aeneas is persian and Dido is north african gOOD GRIEF THESE PICTURES KILL ME EVERY TIME