Nov 18 2022 to Nov 18 2022 7:30 p.m.

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Where

Bangalore International Centre

7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071

Event Description

From Konkan to Coromandel – Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture (Autum 2022) The fifth season of webinars co-organized by the Deccan Heritage Foundation, the Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, the Bangalore International Centre and the Museum of Art & Photography, presenting the pioneering scholarship of in various cultural fields from both the Northern and Southern Deccan Regions of India. The churches, convents and colleges of Old Goa are among the most spectacular Christian religious structures built outside Europe during the early modern period. Although most buildings have disappeared, the ones that remain give us a glimpse of the monumental scale and artistic sophistication of the city’s Christian religious architecture. In this presentation, Sidh Losa Mendiratta will discuss how the clergy and the various religious orders appropriated key sites and developed extensive properties within the city, shaping its urban layout. Focusing on buildings that have disappeared or are in ruins, he will show how they had a strong impact on other churches within the city and beyond, generating architectural genealogies. Looking at the abandonment, ruin and dismantling process of Old Goa from the mid-seventeenth century onward, he will demonstrate that the religious orders’ activities were part of the cause for this process, but also the main reason why the city was never completely deserted. In collaboration with the Deccan Heritage Foundation, the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, the Museum of Art & Photography and the Bangalore International Centre.