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Whitewash, Red Stone - A History of Church Architecture in Goa

Whitewash, Red Stone - A History of Church Architecture in Goa
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Price: Rs.450.00
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ISBN: 9789380403007
Publishing Date: 2011-00-00
Edition: 1st ed
Cover Type: Soft Cover
Author: Paulo Varela Gomes
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WHITEWASH, RED STONE tells the intriguing story of the evolution of church architecture in Goa from the 16th to the 20th centuries. In doing so, it answers questions which have been raised by students and scholars of architectural history for long: What is a Goan church? When and how did the characteristically Goan church appear? How can one explain the fact that an original type of Catholic church appeared in a territory as small as Goa? 

Even as the 17th century initiated a particular transition in the stylistics of church building in the region, the full development of Goan church architecture was completed in the 18th century when local communities (comunidades) or powerful local hierarchs (gaunkars) often took over the reconstruction of the churches founded by the Jesuits of the Franciscans and transformed them into buildings of a new type. The whole of Goa (Ilhas, Bardez and Salcete) was covered by a ‘white mantle of churches’.

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