The Retable Art of The Society of Jesus in Daman: Focusing the retable of Our Lady and the Good Jesus in the Church of Our Lady of Remedies

Announcing the intention of faith in the D. Manuel I portuguese expansionist project, the profile of the Society of Jesus and its action in India are drawn most precisely in the city of Daman where they have settled after the donation of the abyssin mosque, newly conquered by D. Constantino de Braga...

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Main Author: Reis, Mónica
Format: Online
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2021
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Online Access:https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/rhac/article/view/15404
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Summary:Announcing the intention of faith in the D. Manuel I portuguese expansionist project, the profile of the Society of Jesus and its action in India are drawn most precisely in the city of Daman where they have settled after the donation of the abyssin mosque, newly conquered by D. Constantino de Bragança. This historical note allows us to place and integrate the subject of the ignatian retable still existing in damanese territory although it is spread throughout the several religious places of Daman. Taking for example one retable of the 17th century we will see how the retable art as adapted it self in a territory where cults and deities, altars and temples flourish between the most diverse and spectacular forms of representation.
ISSN:2675-9829