Goas Bom Jesus as Visual Culture

Description

This Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest surviving churches from Goo’s Portuguese colonial era. In the sixteenth 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 Goo. This book uncovers the traces of architectural images of God’s sixteenth and seventeenth-century monuments and conducts a genealogical study of how uses of religious orchitecture shift over time. The book is written by Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar who is is Associate Professor at the Goo College of Architecture.