Links

Partners, projects, ressources

• Carnet d’Afriques. Actualité de la recherche en histoire de l’Afrique avant le XX^e siècle
• College of William & Mary (Williamsburgh, USA)
• ERC German Slavery (University of Bremen, Germany)
• Genoese Merchant Networks in Africa and across the Atlantic Ocean (ca. 1450–1530) (DHI, Rome)
• The Globalized Periphery: Atlantic Commerce, Socioeconomic and Cultural Change in Central Europe (1680-1850) (Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
• Institut français de recherche en Afrique (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
• Materialized Identities. Objects, Affects and Effects in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750 (Basel, Bern, Cambridge)
• Navigocorpus. Corpus des itinéraires des navires de commerce, XVII^e-XIX^e siècles
• Palazzo Castelmur (Stampa, Switzerland)
• The Exotic? Integration, Exhibition, and Imitation of Non-Western Material Culture in Europe (1600-1800) (University of Bern, Switzerland)
• The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
• Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (São Leopoldo, Brazil)

Images

Homepage: La Carta del Cantino (1502), Biblioteca Estense, Modena (Italy).

The Project: Giambattista Tiepolo, L’Olimpo e i quattro continenti (1752-1753), detail representing the allegory of Africa, Residenz Würzburg (Germany).

Mediterranean Connections: Memorial heads representing a king and a queen-mother of Benin adorned with coral-bead attire (presumably 18^th/19^th century), Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (New Zealand). 

Alpine Connections: Jean-Étienne Liotard, La Belle chocolatière (1743), detail representing hot chocolate served in a porcelain cup, Gemäldegallerie Alte Meister, Dresden (Germany).

Church Connections: Bernardino d’Asti, Missione in prattica de’padri cappuccini ne’ Regni di Congo, Angola e adiacenti (approx. 1750), drawing depicting the Capuchin hospice in Soyo (Kingdom of Kongo), Biblioteca Civica Centrale, Torino (Italy).

The People: Lot of five African wood masks (presumably 20^th/21^st century), auctioned at the I.M. Chait Gallery, Beverly Hills (USA), source: http://www.chait.com (8 Dec. 2018).

The Network: The fleet of Andrea Doria escorting Charles V and Pope Paul III from Nice to Genoa in 1538 (16^th century), Museo Navale di Pegli, Genova.

Budapest 2017: Buda, woodcut by Michael Wolgemut, published in Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik, Nürnberg 1493.

Nice 2018: Map of Nice (1624), source: Wikipedia.  

Bibliography: Engraving by Louis-Jacques Goussier, published in Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers, Paris 1762-1773.

News & Events: Edward Collier, Trompe l’oeil (approx. 1699), Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK).

Contact: [Álvaro Velho], Roteiro da primeira viagem de Vasco da Gama à Índia (first half of the 16^th century), Biblioteca Pública Municipal, Porto (Portugal).

Links:   Trade beads (presumably 19^th century), sold at Beadniks, Brattleboro (USA), source: http://www.beadniksvt.com (8 Dec. 2018).