Goa’s Bom Jesus as Visual Culture: The Basilica’s Architecture, Image, History and Identity

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

Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar, PhD, 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 World History Bulletin, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, theOxford Journal of Hindu Studies, eTropic, theJournal of Human Values, and Economic and Political Weekly.