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Cécile Fromont
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Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
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Pendant earring and just a few curls peaking out of the checkered headwrap. Detail from one of the many images of the #eighteenthcentury #caribbean made by Agostino Brunias and circulated by many others.
Print of woman wearing an earring and head wrap
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Aux Rencontres Recherche et Création de @agencerecherche.bsky.social au Festival d’Avignon #ANR #festivaldavignon www.recherche-creation-avignon.fr
July 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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It’s never too hot to be in the archives. #heatdome #africanart and yes, sometimes #earlymodern research can be typed and legible!
June 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Beyond excited to read this amazing volume! #earlymodern #beachreading
June 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Well, yes please, we would like to know… #earlymodern #history
June 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Antonio Manuel ne Vunda, Kongo ambassador to the Pope in Rome in 1607-8. His polychrome marble bust usually graces his funeral monument high above ground in Santa Maria Maggiore. In the Global Baroque exhibition at the Quirinale, you can see him almost eye to eye #earlymodern #Kongo #AfricanHistory
Marble bust of a Kongo ambassador
June 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Who has the prettiest archive of them all? #earlymodern #ribbons #archives
May 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Sammy Baloji’s copper cast of a Kongo textile. #Art as #History #earlymodern #Africanart
May 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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When politics is moving fast but you already printed the forms… #administration #earlymodern #revolution
April 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Barely bigger than an arm yet larger than life itself. Peek with me through the glass to the Inmaculada of Alonso Cano #earlymodern #art #closelooking
March 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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*really* don’t miss @psupress.bsky.social Black Studies Sale 👉🏽 www.psupress.org/two_week_sal...
February 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Learning to document, archive, share, and, of course, wonder. #power #humanities #future
February 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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European race- & empire-making *as well as* African sovereignty, woven into the extraordinary details of a French Baroque tapestry #earlymodern #slaveryarchive #workinprogress
Detail of a tapestry
January 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Please enjoy this close up of a Kongo textile #africanart #africa
January 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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#moodboard #HAMH

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January 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Elephant skin furniture & Southern African weapons in the Museo di Storia Naturale La Specola #Firenze History of #African collections in #Italia
Furniture and elephant skull
December 29, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Some things are most famous for the outside than the inside. Innside is pretty inspiring though. #duomo #Firenze
Inside of a dome with painted scenes of the last judgement,
December 24, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Cahen quoted for instance Filippo Pigafetta’s and Duarte Lopez’ Relatione del reame di Congo et delle circonvicine contrade tratta dalli scritti & ragionamenti di Odoardo Lopez. Published in Rome by Bartolomeo Grassi in 1591.
December 17, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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In 1959, a major exhibition of material culture from the *still* Belgian Congo took place at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, titled Arte del Congo #Roma 1959
#africanart
December 17, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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Turning up the heat #earlymodern #martyrdom
Legs of a man burning on a griddle
December 12, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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A complex, sensitive, and utterly moving film by Simon Montairou about enslavement, fugitivity, and the arduous work of memory. Thank you @fondationme.bsky.social for helping it come to the screen
December 6, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Capivard ou cochon d’eau #archives #earlymodern #kawai
December 6, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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✨Il y a 10 ans paraissait la premiere édition de L'Art de la Conversion– Culture visuelle chrétienne dans le royaume du Kongo✨On souffle les bougies ensemble?

#tempsmodernes #Afrique #Angola #Congo #histoiredelart #histoire

En français, ici 👉
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December 5, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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It's been 10 years since the publication of The Art of Conversion! Now working on the Portuguese translation (stay tuned!) & reflecting on this early career work #earlymodern #skystorians #Africa #Angola #Kongo #historyofart #Africanhistory #historyofreligion
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December 5, 2024 at 10:15 AM