Pittsburgh was closer to cities on the Atlantic coast with large black populations, cities such as New York, Washington,D.C.and Baltimore.
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Limned with equal sensitivity are two chalk drawings by Paolo Veronese, "Study of a Black Youth Eating" (c. 1580) and "Study of the Head of a Black Man" (c.1573).
Conversely, works like Orazio Mochi's finely modeled statuette of a "Black Court Jester" (c. 1600-10) and a Flemish or French statuette of a "Black Woman at her Bath" (1580s) reveal the aesthetic delight European sculptors took in the use of bronze with various patinations as a natural medium to represent the variety of African skin tones.