Objects from the exhibition Kongo: Power and Majesty
Explores Central Africa's Kongo civilization's history and culture through 146 of the most inspired creations of Kongo masters from the late fifteenth through the early twentieth century.
Master of Kasadi Workshop
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th–19th century
Kongo peoples
19th century
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
18th–19th century
Kongo artist
16th–17th century
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th–17th century with later additions
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
18th–19th century
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
18th–19th century
Kongo artist
16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)
Kongo artist
16th–17th century (central figure); 18th–19th century (top and bottom figures)
Kongo artist and nganga, Yombe group
Second half of the 19th century
Kongo artist
ca. 1880–1890
Kongo artist
ca. 1880–1890
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried ca.1875
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1904
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried 1903
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried 1897
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried 1897
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried 1897
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried 1897
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th – early 20th century; inventoried 1916
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
17th–18th century, inventoried 1737
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
17th–18th century, inventoried 1737
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
17th–18th century, inventoried 1737
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
17th–18th century, inventoried 1737
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th–17th century, inventoried 1674
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th–17th century, inventoried 1666
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
17th –18th century, inventoried 1737
Jaspar Beckx
ca. 1640–1647
Jaspar Beckx
1640–47
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century
Master of Makaya-Vista
19th–early 20th century, inventoried 1936
Kongo peoples
Ca. 610±30 - 700±30 (late Iron Age)
Kongo peoples
Ca. 1530-50 (late Iron Age)
Kongo peoples
Ca. 1140
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1909
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th century, inventoried 1843
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
17th–18th century, inventory 1854
Kongo peoples
17th–18th century, inventoried 1796
Kongo peoples
16th century, inventoried 1553
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th–early 20th century, inventoried 1928
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century
Master of the Boma-Vonde Region
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Vili group
19th century, inventoried 1885
Kongo peoples; Vili group
19th century, inventoried 1885
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1909
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Master of Kasadi Workshop
19th–early 20th century
António Godinho
ca.1521–41
Kongo Kingdom
June 8, 1517
Kongo Kingdom
October 24,1615
Kongo Kingdom
October 5, 1514
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th century
Kongo peoples
19th century
Kongo peoples
19th century
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
Ca.1842–1857
Portugal
ca. 1482
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1900
Giovanni Antonio de Paoli
Raffaello Schiaminossi
1608
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th–17th century, inventoried 1674
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried 1853
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1904
Master of Kasadi
19th–early 20th century
Master of the Boma-Vonde Region
19th–early 20th century
"Master of Concentric Circles"
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th –early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1898
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1898
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried ca.1875
Kongo peoples, Yombe group
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th–early 20th century, inventoried 1924
Master of Makaya-Vista
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th - early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th–early 20th century
Olfert Dapper
Jacob van Meurs
1668
Kongo peoples
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples
19th century, documented ca.1891
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th–17th century, inventoried 1883
Kongo peoples
19th century, inventoried 1884
Kongo people; Woyo group
19th–early 20th century, inventoried 1930
Master of the Boma-Vonde Region
19th–early 20th century
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1935
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
16th–17th century, inventoried 1607
Kongo peoples
17th–18th century, inventoried 1709
Kongo peoples
17th–18th century, inventoried 1709
Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom
17th–18th century, inventoried 1876
Kongo peoples
17th–18th century, inventoried 1876
Kongo peoples, Kongo Kingdom
16th century, inventoried 1887
Master of the Boma-Vonde Region
19th–early 20th century, inventoried 1913
Kongo peoples; Yombe group
19th century, inventoried 1906
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