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The art and architecture of the Texas missions / Jacinto Quirarte.
Main entry:

Quirarte, Jacinto, 1931-2012.

Title & Author:

The art and architecture of the Texas missions / Jacinto Quirarte.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.

Description:

x, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.
Historical background: the role of missions and presidios in the conversion of Texas -- Missions and presidios, 1659-1793 -- Conversion of Texas: missionaries, soldiers, and Indians, 1740-1824 -- San Antonio de Valero -- San José y San Miguel de Aguayo -- Purísima Concepción -- San Juan Capistrano -- San Francisco de la Espada -- Espíritu Santo.
Summary:

Describes the art and architecture of the six remaining Spanish missions in Texas as they looked when they were originally constructed in the 1600s and 1700s, discusses the message missionaries were trying to convey through their paintings and sculptures, and follows the decay of the buildings, and their subsequent reconstructions.

ISBN:

0292769024
9780292769021

Subject:

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, 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.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ; no. 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227451
Call No.: NA5230.T4 Q57 2002
Status: Available

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