Penned by Encounter: Visibility and Invisibility of the Cross-Cultural in Images from Early Modern Franciscan Missions in Central Africa and Central Mexico

• Published in: Renaissance quarterly Vol. 75; no. 4; pp. 1221 - 1265
• Main Author: Fromont, Cécile
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.12.2022
• Subjects: Bantu languages; Christianity; Conformity; Cross cultural studies; Didacticism; Early modern period; Etching; Missionaries; Otherness; Religious orders; Spirituality; Italy; Mexico; Angola; Central Africa; Kongo

This article considers a corpus of images created between 1650 and 1750 within Italian Capuchin missions to Kongo and Angola. It demonstrates how these visual creations, though European in form, craftsmanship, and intended audience, were in fact penned by encounter and the products of cross-cultural...