Goas Bom Jesus as Visual Culture: The Basilicas Architecture, Image, History a [Paperback]

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. 1. Bom Jesuss Golden (After)Life 2. Monumental Ruins of Goa Dourada: Bom Jesus and the City of Goa, 1510 to 1843 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 Xaviers Relics 6. Rain in the Basilica. Index.

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This book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest-surviving churches from Goas 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.

This book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest-surviving churches from Goas 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 Goa.

Despite their early modern origins, monuments like the Basilica continue to influence visual culture that pertains to Goa. Accordingly, this book uncovers the traces of architectural images of Goas sixteenth- and seventeenth-century monuments and conducts a genealogical study of how uses of religious architecture shift over time. Thus, even as the Basilica originally functioned to portray or recall a grand empire by evoking the notion of Goa Dourada, its iconicity has been employed in marking Goas difference from the rest of India thereafter. By employing an analysis of historical texts, illustrations, photography, film, and pageantry, thislC)