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The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions

English · Hardback

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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 facades 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 Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Senora del Espiritu 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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  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part One. 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 Two. The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions
    • 3. San Antonio de Valero
    • 4. San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
    • La Purísima Concepción
    • San Juan Capistrano
    • 5. San Francisco de la Espada
    • 6. El Espíritu Santo
    • 7. Content and Meaning
    • 8. Summary and Conclusions
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1. A Census of Missions Founded, 1680-1793
  • Appendix 2. The Colonial Documents, 1740-1824
  • Glossary
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index


  • About the author










    Jacinto Quirarte is Professor Emeritus, History of Art and Criticism, at the University of Texas at San Antonio.


    Summary

    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 rem

Product details

Authors Jacinto Quirarte
Publisher University Of Texas Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.05.2002
 
EAN 9780292769021
ISBN 978-0-292-76902-1
No. of pages 261
Dimensions 216 mm x 279 mm x 23 mm
Weight 1193 g
Series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
Jack and Doris Smothers Series
Jack and Doris Smothers Texas
Literary Modernism Series
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

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