Please join us for a lecture by Cécile Fromont, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, "The Discreet Charm of the Old Indies: Kongo, Brazil, and Colonial Fantasy in a French Baroque Tapestry." Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Incubator. 

Cécile Fromont is an art historian specializing on the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe in the early modern period (1500-1800). Her scholarship sheds light on the cross-cultural ebbs and flows that unfolded during this period across and around the Atlantic Ocean. Her research and writing center on African expressive, spiritual, and material cultures and their ramifications in Latin America and Europe, demonstrating how the often violent, but vital connections between the three continents gave contours to the early modern world and continue to shape our own times. 

Reception to follow in Carpenter 106!