Cécile Fromont
Invited Researcher of DEA Programme Stay in France from October 1st to November 30th, 2020


Published at 20 October 2020
Cécile Fromont is an associate professor in the history of art department at Yale University. 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 Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (2014), translated into French in 2018. She is also the editor as well as a contributor to the 2019 volume Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition. She is a 2020-2021 fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies.
Title: Connected by Design: Material and Aesthetic Exchange between Africa and Europe in the Era of the Slave Trade
Keywords: African and Latin American Art History, Atlantic World, Early modern period, Slave trade
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