Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 17/12/2024« The links between Congo and Italy are very old » wrote Lucien Cahen, director of the Musée Royal du Congo Belge (now #Africamuseum) in the introduction to the catalogue. 120
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 17/12/2024The #Roma 1959 show was a reciprocal exhibition after a 1955 show in Tervuren, Belgium of Rome’s Museo Pigorini collection. 130
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Cahen 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. 130
