Bronze Head from Ife
AD 1400-1500 · Resource
A naturalistic copper-alloy head, probably representing a Yoruba king (Ooni), cast at Ife, the sacred centre of the Yoruba. Its sophistication overturned Western assumptions about West African art.
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Around 1450
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- The Last Supper (1495)
- Atlantic slave trade (1500)