The Monuments in Old Goa

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Begins with the distant and legendary past of Gomantak -the Goa of today. It unfolds to the reader not only the story of this beautiful land, but also attempts to provide the general panoramic aspects of Goa.

To enable the reader to grasp the various trends in architecture evidenced in the various monuments, the author has taken pains to provide in it and introduction to Greek and Roman art and their influenceon the architectural expressions in the execution of the exteriors and the interiors of the several Monuments in Old Goa.

The Author has consulted a very large number of sources, primary as well as secondary, in English and in Portuguese. There is no doubt about the range of her scholarship and the soundness of her historical Argument."

Born in 1948 after graduating from the University of Madras through Stella Maris College in the Faculty of Fine Arts she prosecuted her post graduate with a Merit Scholarship from the beutial Government and secured her M.A. degree in History of Art. At present Miss Nunes is a lecturer in History of Art at the Goa. Miss Judilia Nunes started her academic carrier in the Portuguese Language at the primary school. There after she joined Escolo Tecnica and during her studies secured several prizes from the erstwhile Portuguese Government. She also passed the primeiro ciclo of Portuguese Lyceum.

From 1961 after the libertarian of Goa she shifted on to the English mediums education.

The book represents an attempt to appreciate the art and architecture of the places of worship and other monuments still extant in OLD GOA against the back- ground of its ancient glory.

In order to help the reader to be familiar with their origin and other circums- tances relating to them, where need be the historical setting has been presented. It is hoped that the discerning reader will be rewarded in going through the pages by the satisfaction he will derive in his search to identify the various trends, motifes and influences which have had their impact on the architecture of the monuments in Old Goa.

As the monuments have a bearing on the discoveries and conquests of Portugal of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, an attempt has been made to aid the reader with some references to the background of the time.

However, with due regard to the fact that there may be many studious readers, who though eager to behold the aesthetic panorama of architectural art but are yet unable to undertake a journey for the purpose to the Old City, the book has been profusely illustrated to familiarise the reader with the 'Golden Goa' of the past and the Old Goa of today.