The catalogue for Arte e religiosidade afro-brasileira, the exhibition held at the Kunstverein Museum, in Frankfurt in 1994, introduces the work of contemporary artists of African descent or whose work is inspired by African culture. The exhibition includes statues of black Catholic saints, traditional sculptures and objects by unknown artists, and works by European artists who, in the nineteenth century, recorded the presence of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. The catalogue also includes reproductions of ritual objects used in candomblé (the Brazilian cult with pure African roots) and Umbanda (an Afro-Catholic syncretism that was adopted in Brazil). There are also essays by the exhibition’s curators: the sociologist Carlos Eugênio Marcondes de Moura and the visual artist Emanoel Araújo. Moura outlines the history of the Brazilian slave trade from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries; he discusses the forced conversion of captured Africans to Catholicism and the development and spread of candomblé and Umbanda in Brazil, and describes their divinities, temples, and ritual objects. Araújo, meanwhile, writes about the role of black artists in Brazilian art (mainly between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries), comparing their work to the work of contemporary artists such as Agnaldo Manoel dos Santos, Mestre Didi, Ronaldo Rego, Waldeloir Rego, and Rubem Valentim.