TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pereira, Jose
TI  - Baroque India - The neo-roman religious architecture of South Asia
SN  - 8173051615
U1  - 724.16 DDC23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
KW  - ARCHITECUTRE HISTORY (ARC-HIS)
KW  - CATHOLIC CURCHES-TYPES; SANCTUARY CHURCH; CROSSES; SHRINES; HINDU TEMPLES; PROTESTANT CHURCHES; EPILOGUE
N2  - Baroque India is the fruit of over 40 years of research, and is the work of one professionally trained in the history of Indian art (Hindu, Buddhist and Jain). In addition, he is the author of a survey of Islamic architecture world-wide, which includes, of course, the Indo-Islamic traditions. It is his belief that Indian Baroque or, more correctly, Indian Neo-Roman cannot be properly appreciated without an understanding of the architectural styles that preceded it on the subcontinent, and which exercised a significant impact on it. To produce the book the author not only visited the various sites which contain the monuments of Indian Neo-Roman, but has travelled as an architectural pilgrim over much of the Neo-Roman world, in Europe and the Americas. He has also familiarized himself with the art-historical theories on the various styles of architecture, in particular, the Neo-Roman. He has thus prepared himself to contemplate Baroque India's contribution against the Neo-Roman background. In consequence, the method adopted in this book has been that of summarily describing the distinctive spatial modalities of the various Neo-Roman styles, as reflected in their major monuments, especially the styles which impacted on India: a method that facilitates the discernment of the specific Indian contribution to Neo-Roman taken as a whole. In so doing,
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