The art and architecture of the Texas missions /

To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six remaining Texas missions⁰́₄San Antonio de Valero...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Quirarte, Jacinto, 1931-2012
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 6.
Temas:
Spanish mission buildings > Texas > History.
Architecture, Spanish colonial > Texas.
Art, Spanish colonial > Texas.
Missions > Texas > History.
Missions espagnoles (Édifices) > Texas > Histoire.
Architecture coloniale espagnole > Texas.
Art colonial espagnol > Texas.
Missions > Texas > Histoire.
ARCHITECTURE / History / General
Architecture, Spanish colonial.
Art, Spanish colonial.
Missions.
Spanish mission buildings.
Texas.
Edificios de las misiones españolas > Texas > Historia.
Arquitectura española colonial > Texas.
Arte español colonial > Texas.
Misiones > Texas > Historia.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: THE ROLE OF MISSIONS AND PRESIDIOS IN THE CONVERSION OF TEXAS
  • Missions and presidios, 1659-1796
  • The conversion of Texas: missionaries, soldiers, and Indians, 1740-1824
  • THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE TEXAS MISSIONS
  • San Antonio de Valero
  • San Jose y San Miquel de Aguayo
  • La Purisima Concepcion
  • San Juan Capistrano
  • San Francisco de la Espada
  • El Espiritu Santo
  • Content and meaning
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Epilogue
  • A census of missions founded, 1680-1793
  • The colonial documents, 1740-1824.

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