Cécile Fromont
American art historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cécile Alice Fromont is a French-born American art historian and educator. Fromont is currently Professor of African and South Atlantic Art at Yale University. Career Born in Martinique, Fromont initially received a degree from Sciences Po in International Relations in 2002. She then continued on to Harvard University to receive degrees in Art History: a Master of Arts in 2004 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2008. She wrote a doctoral dissertation under Suzanne Blier and Thomas B. F. Cummins titled "Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Shaping Images and Molding Faith in Early Modern Central Africa."
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- The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (2014) (39)
- Dancing for the King of Congo from Early Modern Central Africa to Slavery-Era Brazil (2013) (24)
- Common Threads: Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola (2018) (17)
- Paper, Ink, Vodun, and the Inquisition: Tracing Power, Slavery, and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic (2020) (16)
- Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–1800 (2011) (14)
- Under the sign of the cross in the kingdom of Kongo: Religious conversion and visual correlation in early modern Central Africa (2011) (13)
- Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo (2014) (7)
- AFRO‐CATHOLIC FESTIVALS IN THE AMERICAS: PERFORMANCE, REPRESENTATION, AND THE MAKING OF BLACK ATLANTIC TRADITION. Edited by CécileFromont. Africana Religions. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pp. xi + 203; plates, illustrations. $89.95. (2019) (2)
- 6 Envisioning Brazil’s Afro-Christian Congados: The Black King and Queen Festival Lithograph of Johann Moritz Rugendas (2019) (2)
- Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola (2022) (2)
- The taste of others1 (2021) (1)
- Envisioning Brazil’s Afro-Christian Congados: (2019) (1)
- Introduction: Kongo Christianity, Festive Performances, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition (2019) (0)
- Kongo Triple Crucifix (2014) (0)
- Negotiating Time and Space (2014) (0)
- Penned by Encounter: Visibility and Invisibility of the Cross-Cultural in Images from Early Modern Franciscan Missions in Central Africa and Central Mexico (2022) (0)
- Depicting Kongo and Angola in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2022) (0)
- Introduction: (2019) (0)
- From Catholic Kingdom to the Heart of Darkness (2014) (0)
- Chapter 7. Collecting and Translating Knowledge Across Cultures: Capuchin Missionary Images of Early Modern Central Africa, 1650–1750 (2011) (0)
- Vaudou, April 5–September 25, 2011, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France. (2012) (0)
- The Fabric of Power, Wealth, and Devotion (2014) (0)
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