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- Title
From Portugal to India. The path of retable art in the old northern province of Goa: artistic inventory of the altarpiece in Taluka of Tiswadi.
- Authors
do Carmo Pedro Esteves REIS, Mónica
- Abstract
The maritime discovery of India paved the way for the opening of a cultural dialogue between Europe and Asia in a way that was more profound than previous contact via land. The Portuguese departed from Lisbon in search of lost Christians, providing a justification for economic activities, as well. The religious orders acquired new souls, gaining more Christians and territories first with improvised churches and small chapels that later became important churches. Goa became the imposing Rome of the Orient. On each ship from Lisbon more missionaries arrived that would support religious conversions in the name of the Portuguese Crown and helped to provide cohesion in a far-flung territory that was difficult to govern. The Portuguese constructed churches and decorated the spaces within. Retable art, catalyzer of the faith, revealed through images the benefits of conversion with the retable as the principle vehicle. The retable is the representative of faith through art, a book in images. It quickly became evident that this new territory was full of capable woodcarving artisans who could assume the role of European artists. Indo-Portuguese retable art is unique, the result of artistic cooperation between various types of religious devotion - the indigenous and the imported - which produced a form of art that is not found in any other part of the Portuguese world. This doctoral thesis presents an exhaustive artistic inventory of the retables of the taluka of Tiswadi and seeks to demonstrate the processes of retabular production in Goa, focusing on Tiswadi, the location where the Portuguese initially arrived and where they erected the most important churches of the Portuguese presence. This thesis examines the artistic conjunctures that developed, and studies the denominators of each conjuncture, analyzing their formal solutions and iconographies and enunciating their interventions.
- Subjects
GOA (India : State); ALTARPIECES; INDO-Portuguese art
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p599
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract