Initiés. Bassin du Congo. Moyen-âge as one of the best

as one of the best representatives of the eclecticism that emerged in artistic creation in the mid-19th century

he fled Germany and then Europe before taking his own life in Brazil

Plato paints the portrait of a flamboyant politician in his youth: Alcibiades

Etruscan and Roman antiquity

Initiés. Bassin du Congo. Moyen-âge as one of the bestIn sub Saharan Africa, being initiated means first of all that one has followed, over a long period and in trying conditions, a specific teaching reserved for a category of individuals. Then, certain rules of behavior specific to the group from which one comes are shared with other people, most often of the same age and sex. This work, which brings together texts by art historians, ethnologists and anthropologists, reveals how and why many ritual