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Book Review
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
03/2024 | 1452 | 166
Pages: 328-330
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
dates:
1650-1749
places:
Congo / Angola
subjects:
Missionaries / Friars / Italian art / Watercolours
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subjects:
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola By Cécile Fromont. 336 pp. incl. 126 col. + 52 b. & w. ills. (Penn State University Press, University Park, 2022), $109.95. ISBN 978–0– 271–09218–8. | :
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Attributed works:
5. Kongo Ambassador to Recife, Brazil, from the Libri Picturati, by Albert Eckhout. c.1637– 44. Oil on paper, 30 by 50 cm (Jagiellonian Library, Krakow; MS A 34; fol. 3).
Book Review
The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo, by Cécile Fromont
09/2016 | 1362 | 158
Pages: 743
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Reviewer:
Picton, John (Picton, John)
Subjects
places:
Congo / Gabon
places:
Africa / Angola
subjects:
Visual culture / Christian iconography / African / Colonial / Portuguese
Illustrations
Attributed works:
41. Portrait of a Kongo Ambassador to Recife, Brazil, by Albert Eckhout. c.1637-44 (Libri Picturati A 34, fol.1; Jagiellonian Library, Kraków)