Title: Nagas, naginis y grutescos
Description: The book by architect and PhD. in art history Esteban García Brosseau is divided into two parts: part one, which includes chapters one to four, is dedicated to identifying Hindu and Renaissance ornamental motifs characteristic of Indo-Portuguese pulpits, and to reconstruct their history; part two, which includes chapters five to seven, intends to explore the meaning and significance of these motifs in these ecclesiastical artifacts of the 17th and 18th century, situating them in the context of the fight led by the Iberian Crowns against Heresy and Idolatry, form Portuguese India to the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, in that same period.
Subjects: Pulpits, India, History, Portuguese Art, Carving (Decorative arts), Christian art and symbolism, Church decoration and ornament
Places: India
Time periods: 18th century, 17th century