Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola / / Cécile Fromont.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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