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Images on a mission in early modern Kongo and Angola / Cécile Fromont.

"Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fromont, Cécile (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Capuchin art > Kongo Kingdom > 17th century. Capuchin art > Kongo Kingdom > 18th century. Capuchin art > Angola > 17th century. Capuchin art > Angola > 18th century. Capuchins > Missions > Kongo Kingdom > History > 17th century. Capuchins > Missions > Kongo Kingdom > History > 18th century. Capuchins > Missions > Angola > History > 17th century. Capuchins > Missions > Angola > History > 18th century. Capuchins. Capuchin art. Missions. Africa > Kongo Kingdom. Angola. History.

Table of Contents:

"Nonsense" : Capuchin images of Kongo and Angola against Italian preconceptions
Practical guides to the mission : the Capuchin Central-African corpus
Images and devotion
Images as method
Images against idolatry
With "the consent of the people, and the secular arm of the prince"
Penned by encounter : Capuchins, Central Africans, and the making of a cross-cultural discourse.