The Good Shepherd Rockery from Portuguese India, 1570s to 1650s - Emulation and Dissimulation in a Case of Missionary Art

This book explores the genesis of the ivory carvings of the Good Shepherd Rockery with a focus on the practices of emulation and dissimulation performed by patrons, artists, and local agents – an equivocal game of mirrors that ultimately charged the artworks with multiple interpretive layers and allusive meanings.