Kongo: Power and MajestyMetropolitan Museum of Art, 16 sep 2015 - 308 pagina's A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis. |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
17th–18th century 19th–early 20th century acquired Afonso African Art Alvaro Angola Belgium Brussels Cabinda Central Africa ceramic Chiloango River region Congo River Copenhagen cushion cover Dapper Democratic Republic Diam Dutch early Engraving Ernst Anspach Etnografico Luigi Pigorini European Ex-collection Exhib Female Figure fetish Figure Nkisi N’Kondi Finial inventoried iron ivory kaolin Kikongo king Kingdom of Kongo Kneeling Female Kongo artists Kongo Kingdom Kunstkammer Landana Lemba Lisbon Loango coast Luanda Luxury Cloth Maloango Manikongo Master of Kasadi Mayombe Mbanza Kongo metal Metropolitan Museum minkisi Mpemba Musée Museo Preistorico Etnografico Museum for Central Museum of Art Nacional National Museum Nationalmuseet Naukeurige Beschrijvinge nganga Ngoyo nineteenth century Opposite fig Pechuël-Loesche Pedro pigment plant fiber Pointe-Noire Portugal Portuguese Postcard Power Figure Nkisi Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Private collection raffia resin Rome Royal Museum sculptures slaves Soyo Staff Finial Tervuren textile Thornton trade University Vili visual Wood Wyatt MacGaffey Yombe group York