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DESCRIPTION:Cécile Fromont will present at the seminar in Renaissance and E
 arly Modern Material Culture on Tuesday\, February 8\, at 12:15 pm. Her ta
 lk is entitled “Penned by Encounter: Central Africans\, Capuchin Friars\, 
 and Their Images in Early Modern Kongo and Angola.”Early modern central Af
 rica comes to life in the vivid full-page paintings Italian Capuchin Franc
 iscans\, veterans of the Kongo and Angola missions\, composed between 1650
  and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. Their 'practical guides
 ' present the intricacies of the natural\, social\, and religious environm
 ent of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline
  the primarily visual catechization methods they devised for the region. U
 nfolding outside of a European colonial project\, at the demand of local r
 ulers\, and among populations who had engaged with the visual and material
  culture of Europe and Christianity for more than one hundred and fifty ye
 ars\, the Capuchin central African apostolate is without parallel in the e
 arly modern world. Equally unique are the images that emerged in the friar
 s’ sustained and fraught interactions with the men and women of Kongo and 
 Angola. Fromont analyzes this overlooked visual corpus to demonstrate how 
 such visual creations\, though European in form and craftsmanship\, did no
 t emerge from a single perspective but rather were and should be read as t
 he products of cross-cultural interaction. With this intervention\, she ai
 ms to model a way to think anew about images created at the crux of cultur
 es\, bringing to the fore the formative role that encounter itself played 
 in their conception\, execution\, and modes of operation.Cécile Fromont is
  an associate professor in the history of art department at Yale Universit
 y. Her writing and teaching focus on the visual\, material\, and religious
  culture of Africa and Latin America with a special emphasis on the early 
 modern period (ca 1500–1800) and on the Portuguese-speaking Atlantic world
 . She is the author of the award winning The Art of Conversion: Christian 
 Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (2014\; French translation 2018) an
 d the editor as well as a contributor to the 2019 volume Afro-Catholic Fes
 tivals in the Americas: Performance\, Representation\, and the Making of B
 lack Atlantic Tradition. Her latest book\, Images on a Mission in Early Mo
 dern Kongo and Angola\, will be published this spring. Her essays on Afric
 an and Latin American visual and material culture have appeared in the Col
 onial Latin American Review\, African Arts\, Art History\, Anais do Museu 
 Paulista\, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, RES: Anthropo
 logy and Aesthetics as well as various edited volumes and exhibition catal
 ogues.This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to regis
 trants by 10 am on the day of the event. This event will be live with auto
 matic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Penned by Encounter
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