Archaeological Testing Within the Southeast Corner of the Plaza at Mission Espada, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas
Author: Frances K. Meskill
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 42
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Author: Frances K. Meskill
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacinto Quirarte
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-22
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0292787820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas 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 of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. 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 missions—San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad. Using church records and other historical accounts, as well as old photographs, drawings, and paintings, Quirarte describes the mission churches and related buildings, their decorated surfaces, and the (now missing) altarpieces, whose iconography he extensively analyzes. He sets his material within the context of the mission era in Texas and the Southwest, so that the book also serves as a general introduction to the Spanish missionary program and to Indian life in Texas.
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 148
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antonia L. Figueroa
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 38
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 164
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Courtenay J. Jones
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy M. Porter
Publisher: Women, Gender, and the West
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK""Examines the religion, family, economics, and material culture of women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities in 1750-1846 through women's wills. The wills help to explain the workings of the patriarchal system in the Spanish and Mexican borderland communities"--
Author: I. Waynne Cox
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 5
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