Fromont, Cécile  1969- <br/><br/>
Images on a mission in early modern Kongo and Angola 

 - xvii, 245 p.  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index. 
<br/><br/>"Nonsense" : Capuchin images of Kongo and Angola against Italian preconceptions -- Practical guides to the mission : the Capuchin Central-African corpus -- Images and devotion -- Images as method -- Images against idolatry -- With "the consent of the people, and the secular arm of the prince" -- Penned by encounter : Capuchins, Central Africans, and the making of a cross-cultural discourse. 
<br/><br/> "Presents and analyzes a set of unpublished images from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kongo and Angola created within the Capuchin Franciscan mission to the region"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271092188  hardback 0271092181  hardback 9780271094090  ePub 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Capuchins--Missions--History--Kongo Kingdom--17th century<br/>Capuchins--Missions--History--Kongo Kingdom--18th century<br/>Capuchins--Missions--History--Angola--17th century<br/>Capuchins--Missions--History--Angola--18th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capuchin art--Kongo Kingdom--17th century<br/>Capuchin art--Kongo Kingdom--18th century<br/>Capuchin art--Angola--17th century<br/>Capuchin art--Angola--18th century<br/>266.1*72--Missie en kunst<br/>266 <675>--Missies. Evangelisatie. Zending--Zaïre. Belgisch Kongo--Missions. Evangelisation--Zaïre. Belgisch Kongo