The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

ISBN-13: 9781469641249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str.

Cecile Fromont

Opis

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries.