Fabrizio Ruggiero

Tribute to Traditions

Unity in Cultural Diversity

Polyptych · 12 panels Rome · 2006 New York · 2009 Permanent installation · National Museum of Cameroon

Foundational Figures — Fresco Portraits

Makoko Iloo Ier, fresco portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero, National Museum of Cameroon
Makoko Iloo Ier
Fresco portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
Symbolic figure of intercultural dialogue and cultural mediation
Tribute to Traditions: Unity in Cultural Diversity
Permanent installation · National Museum of Cameroon
Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza, fresco portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero, National Museum of Cameroon
Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza
Fresco portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
Historical mediator and ethical archetype of cross-cultural respect
Curatorial nucleus of the exhibition
Permanent installation · National Museum of Cameroon

In the lexicon of visual art, the term polyptych traditionally designates a single pictorial organism composed of multiple articulated elements—panels conceived as autonomous yet inseparable parts of a unified whole.

In Tribute to Traditions: Unity in Cultural Diversity, this structure becomes more than a formal device: the twelve panels operate as a symbolic constellation, articulating a vision of unity where multiplicity does not fragment the whole, but reveals it—one in all and all in one, as undivided expressions of a single, living continuum.


Conclusion

Tribute to Traditions: Unity in Cultural Diversity stands as a work that transcends categorization: historical and mythical, contemporary and timeless, institutional and experiential. It is not merely an object to be viewed, but a symbolic architecture to be inhabited—a visual cosmology in which diversity becomes structure, and unity becomes meaning.