'Africa in European Imagination' Goes on Display in Nott on April 12

A collection of illustrations depicting European perceptions of Africa from the 16th through the 18th centuries will be on display April 12 through June 1 in the Mandeville Gallery in the Nott Memorial.

"Africa in the European Imagination: Visions of the Kongo, Angola and Matamba 1600-1750" is open Sunday through Thursday noon to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday noon to 5 p.m.The exhibit will be accompanied by a series of five lectures by historians and art historians, all in the Nott Memorial. (See schedule below.) The illustrations represented in this exhibition appeared in some of the most important travel accounts published during the Portuguese colonization of the African West Coast. For details, call ext. 6729.

The lecture series schedule:

• April 15, 7:30 p.m. "Slavery and Resistance in 17th Century Angola: The Era of Queen Zingha." Patrick
• Graille, University of Paris X - Nanterre. (Funded by the Minerva Committee, Union College)
• April 24, 7:30 p.m. "A Country So Immersed in Rudeness and Barbarity: Africa through the Eighteenth Century Prism." Sarah Jordan, Albion College, Mich.
• May 12, 4:30 p.m. "The Circulating Image in the Eighteenth Century." A roundtable discussion with Louisa C. Matthew and Charlotte N. Eyerman, Union College.
• May 14, 4 p.m. "The Art of Forgetting: Endarkening a Continent." A.T. Miller, Union College.
• May 20, 7:30 p.m. "Africa on Display: Imagining Africa Then and Now." R. Nii Nartey, Siena College.