Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar

Goa's Bom Jesus as Visual Culture

The Basilica's Architecture, Image, History and Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest-surviving churches from Goaâ s Portuguese colonial era. In the 16th century, this baroque church in Old Goa was constructed to house the sacred relics of St. Francis Xavier and is emblematic of Goa Dourada or Golden Goa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 341mm x 263mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9781032904412
• ISBN-10: 1032904410
• Artikelnr.: 71236918

Autorenporträt

Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar is Associate Professor at the Goa College of Architecture, India. His research on Goa's architectural history focuses on early modern church design as well as the evolution of Indo-Portuguese aesthetics from the colonial to the postcolonial period. His writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, the Oxford Journal of Hindu Studies, eTropic, the Journal of Human Values, and Economic and Political Weekly.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. 1. Bom Jesus's Golden (After)Life 2. 3.
Resurrection: Bom Jesus and the Print Publications of the Nineteenth
Century 4. Negative Space and Bom Jesus: Photography as Strategy in
Late-Colonial Old Goa 5. Itinerant Saint: The Architecture of Golden Goa
and the 1952 Exposition of St. Francis Xavier's Relics 6. Rain in the
Basilica. Index.