Six Missions of Texas
Author: James M. Day
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 230
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Author: James M. Day
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is designed to capture the true history of the missions of Texas and bring their exciting story to the general reader.
Author: Lon Tinkle
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is designed to capture the true history of the missions of Texas and bring their exciting story to life.
Author: Jacinto Quirarte
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-22
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0292787820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner, 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.
Author: Stephanie Kuligowski
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Published: 2012-11-30
Total Pages: 20
ISBN-13: 1433350653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the 1800s, Mexican and American settlers were starting colonies throughout Texas. After Mexico won its independence from Spain, the real fight for Texas began. Through supportive text, vivid images, a helpful glossary, index, table of contents, and engaging sidebars and facts, readers will learn about Texas history, Texas colonization, the missions in Texas, Stephen F. Austin, and The Alamo. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
Author: E. M. Schiwetz
Publisher:
Published: 1984-10-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780292775978
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