Arte Sacre: Roman Catholic Art from Portuguese India

An intriguing and dense product of 16th century colonialism, a devotion to the Roman Catholic faith has interwoven itself into the culture of Goa in western India. The cultural exchanges between Portuguese and Spanish missionaries and the local peoples resulted in a body of religious art that is simultaneously distinctly European and distinctly Goan. 

This spring, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents an exhibition of such artifacts—paintings, sculpture, and devotional objects replicating the saints, apostles, the Virgin Mary, Christ, and angels. noma.org.