Título da palestra: Images and Cross-Cultural Knowledge of Kongo and Angola, 1500-1750
Data: 21/08/14, quinta-feira
Horário: 10:30
Local: sala de conferências do CAPH (entrada pelo térreo do vão do Prédio da História-USP)
Resumo: Since the sixteenth century, Europeans have used images to seize the central African natural, cultural, and religious environment in the diverse genres of missionary images, chronicles of colonial rule, and travelogues. This paper considers how this rich visual record of the independent Kingdom of Kongo and the neighboring Portuguese colony of Angola raises key questions about the status of images in the construction of cross-cultural knowledge in the early modern period.
A professora: Cécile Fromont is an assistant professor of Art History at the University of Chicago specializing in the arts, religion, and visual culture of the early modern southern Atlantic with a special focus on Kongo, Angola, and Brazil between the sixteenth and nineteenth century. She is the author of The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo that will appear in December 2014. She received her A.M. and Ph.D in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University.