Early Churches of Mexico : An Architect's View /

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Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spears, Beverley, 1945- (Author)
Other Authors: Perry, Richard (Richard D.) (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Spanish mission buildings.
Church architecture.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Religious.
Missions espagnoles (Édifices) > Mexique.
Architecture chretienne > Mexique.
Spanish mission buildings > Mexico.
Church architecture > Mexico.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs.
Physical Description:1 online resource (408 pages).
ISBN:9780826358189

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