The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions /

The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions / / Jacinto Quirarte.

Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century.and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Quirarte, Jacinto,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (261 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: THE ROLE OF MISSIONS AND PRESIDIOS IN THE CONVERSION OF TEXAS
  • 1 Missions and Presidios, 1659—1793
  • 2 The Conversion of Texas: Missionaries, Soldiers, and Indians, 1740—1824
  • Part II THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE TEXAS MISSIONS
  • 3 San Antonio de Valero
  • 4 La Purisima Concepcion
  • 5 La Purisima Concepcion
  • 6 San Juan Capistrano
  • 7 San Francisco de la Espada
  • 8 El Espiritu Santo
  • 9 Content and Meaning
  • 10 Summary and Conclusions
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix 2 The Colonial Documents, 1740—1824
  • Glossary
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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