McNaspy, C. J. (Clement J.), 1915-1995.

Lost cities of Paraguay : art and architecture of the Jesuit reductions, 1607-1767 / by C.J. McNaspy ; photographs by J.M. Blanch.

Chicago : Loyola University Press, ©1982.

159 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

A Campion book

For one brief shining hour there existed in the jungles of what is now Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, a marvelous civilization that stands today only in near-forgotten though still eloquent ruins. These were the Thirty Cities of the so-called "Jesuit Reductions", safe havens into which Jesuit missioners gathered primitive Indians to protect them from Portuguese slave traders and the depredations of the Spanish colonists. In a fantastically short time, the talents of these previously untrained people flowered into the building of a remarkable "world" of beauty and grace almost beyond belief, a world Voltaire called "in some way the triumph of humanity" and Chesterton called "a Paradise in Paraguay". Were it not for the mute testimony of the delicately carved statues and the ruins of noble churches, the whole story might seem beyond belief.

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Jesuits Missions Paraguay.
Jésuites Missions Paraguay.
Jesuits
Art, Colonial Paraguay.
Jesuit art Paraguay.
Art, Baroque Paraguay.
Architecture, Colonial Paraguay.
Jesuit architecture Paraguay.
Architecture, Baroque Paraguay.
Guarani Indians Missions.
Indians of South America Missions Paraguay.
Guarani Indians.
Art colonial Paraguay.
Art baroque Paraguay.
Art jésuite Paraguay.
Guarani.
Architecture baroque Paraguay.
Architecture coloniale Paraguay.
Architecture jésuite Paraguay.
Architecture, Baroque
Architecture, Colonial
Art, Baroque
Art, Colonial
Indians of South America Missions
Jesuit architecture
Jesuit art
Missions
Indianerreduktion
Kunst
Ruine
Stadt
Guarani (Indiens) Missions.
Paraguay
Jesuitenstaat

Blanch, J. M., photographer.
Campion book.

Location: Library main 137660
Call No.: ID:87-B16656
Status: Available