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>moors were depicted as black by christians symbolically to show they were "blackened" by islam.
I dont entirely agree with that.
Depicting moors as blacks really depends on from where the depicitons come from how symbolic they are meant to be as an sterotype sort of thing.
That painting comes from Alhambra, and if iirc it was painted by a Italian artists from the local rulling moorish nobility
If you go a century early and look at the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which was made by iberian christians for iberian christian. They depict moors and other muslims not that differently from the guys on the ceilling of Alhambra, with a few clearly black here and there. Else where in europe depicting moors/africans with symbolic black face was far more common, even when the person being depicted wasnt a muslim like the depictions of St. Mauritius commonly found in Germany