Talk:Market of Goa

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The current article is a partially wiki-formatted assignment from an art history undergrad.

Probably needs to be rebuilt from ground up with better sourcing: It gets several obvious things incredibly wrong, starting with the publication dates, and the sources it has include patent nonsense like slaves' sickness being the source of their worth and the claim that the normal Goan household had 30 slaves. (This may be true of the 6 Portuguese there at some point in the mid-1520s. It wouldn't be generally true of even the Portuguese over the entire period of rule, let alone the actual normal Goan households.) The writer also seems to be confused by the very topic under discussion, imagining that the artist Van Doetecum's sense of composition speaks to the writer Linschoten's untrustworthiness or imagining it's somehow odd that 16th-century Dutch engravers didn't know what Chinese and Indian architecture precisely looked like.

At mininum, it needs to focus on the image and present it in an encyclopedic manner rather than the current docent style. — Llywelyn II   21:26, 15 February 2023 (UTC)