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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Chapter 1 “Nonsense” Capuchin Images of Kongo and Angola Against Italian Preconceptions
    Chapter 2 Practical Guides to the Mission: The Capuchin Central- African Corpus
    Chapter 3 Images and Devotion
    Chapter 4 Images as Method
    Chapter 5 Images Against Idolatry
    Chapter 6 With “the Consent of the People, and the Secular Arm of the Prince”
    Chapter 7 Penned by Encounter: Capuchins, Central Africans, and the Making of a Cross-Cultural Discourse
    Conclusion
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index
  • Contributor: Fromont, Cécile [Author]
  • Published: University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9780271094106
  • ISBN: 9780271094106
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  • Keywords: Capuchin art Angola 17th century ; Capuchin art Angola 18th century ; Capuchin art Kongo Kingdom 17th century ; Capuchin art Kongo Kingdom 18th century ; ART / African ; Angola ; Atlantic World ; Capuchins ; Chinese rites controversy ; Franciscans ; Kongo kingdom ; Kongo ; accommodation ; botanical illustrations ; catechism ; central Africa ; conversion ; cross-cultural encounters ; cross-cultural images ; early modern Atlantic ; early modern period ; eighteenth century ; indigenous ontology ; manuscript ; [...]
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention.This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all the images in the atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related material gathered from collections and archives around the world. Taking a bold new approach to the study of early modern global interactions, art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, though European in form and crafstmanship, emerged not from a single perspective but rather from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models a fresh way to think about images created across cultures, highlighting the formative role that cultural encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation.Centering Africa and Africans, and with ramifications on four continents, Fromont’s decolonial history profoundly transforms our understanding of the early modern world. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in early modern studies, art history, and religion
  • Access State: Restricted Access | Information to licenced electronic resources of the SLUB