"Race / Art History" Talk by Cécile Fromont: “Penned by Encounter: Central Africans, Capuchin Friars, and Their Images in Early Modern Kongo and Angola”

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 4:30pm
Zoom

FREE! For Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff.

“Race / Art History” is a year-long series of talks by scholars working at the intersections of art history and critical race studies. This talk, "Penned by Encounter: Central Africans, Capuchin Friars, and Their Images in Early Modern Kongo and Angola," will be given by Cécile Fromont of Yale University.

Visit the series website for more information and to attend the lecture series on Zoom.

Sponsored by the Samuel Silipo ’85 Distinguished Visitor’s Fund of the Department of Art and Art History, with co-sponsorship from the Office of Academic Affairs.

Image details from left: Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, 1797, Versailles, Musée national du château, MV 4616; Berlinghiero, Virgin and Child, c. 1220–1230, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 60.173; Samuel Joseph Brown Jr., Self-Portrait, ca. 1941, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 43.46.4