The Art of Conversion

By Cécile Fromont,

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

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Ana Lucia Araujo

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The Art of Conversion by art historian Cécile Fromont provides us with a rich overview of visual images and material objects witnessing the first contacts between African men and women in the Kingdom of Kongo and European conquerors and missionaries starting in the late fifteenth century.

Richly illustrated with color images of paintings, objects, and artifacts of Christian devotion, this book shows how these early encounters that led to the rise of the Atlantic slave trade in the region of present-day Angola in West Central Africa were marked by the mutual exchanges of valuable objects.

These exchanges were also immortalized…

From Ana's list on the material culture of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism.