The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) by Cécile Fromont

The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) by Cécile Fromont

Author:Cécile Fromont [Fromont, Cécile]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014-12-19T00:00:00+00:00


FIGURE 60 Medal of Saint Anthony. Kongo kingdom, eighteenth century. Silvered copper, 3.6 cm. Excavated from Ngongo Mbata cemetery, Democratic Republic of Congo. Current location unknown. Image from Victor Tourneur, “Médailles religieuses du XVIIIème siècle trouvées au Congo,” Revue Belge de Numismatique et de Sigillographie, XCI (1939), 21–26, plate II, 1. Photograph by the University of Chicago Visual Resources Center, courtesy of the Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium, Brussels

FIGURE 61 Medal of Saint Anthony. Kongo kingdom, eighteenth century. Copper, 3.6 cm. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, inv. HO.1954.19.7. Photograph, J. Van de Vyver, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren ©



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