Author: David L. NickelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Archaeological Survey of Southwest Block and Selected Roads and Firebreaks at Camp Maxey, Lamar County, Texas
Author: David L. NickelsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Archaeology of Spanish and Mexican Colonialism in the American Southwest
Author: The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions
Author: Jacinto QuirartePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292787820
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Texas State Publications
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Anthropology and Archaeology
Author: Hemisfair '68 and the Transformation of San Antonio
Author: Sterlin HolmeslyPublisher: Maverick Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781893271289
Category : HemisFair
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this book the author records the HemisFair and post-HemisFair experiences and reflections of 34 prominent San Antonians, told in their own words.
The Spanish Acequias of San Antonio
Author: I. Waynne CoxPublisher: Maverick Books
ISBN: 9781893271340
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This well researched and documented book recounts the unique history of water and water distribution in early San Antonio, Texas. The founding of San Antonio in 1718 was due to the presence of two major sources of water --San Pedro Springs and the headwaters of the San Antonio River. From these Spanish engineers designed seven major acequia systems that followed sometimes barely perceptible land contours downward. The history and remarkable expertise of those early engineers is recounted here. Photographs and maps of early San Antonio and urban San Antonio add to the story. The manuscript was completed shortly before the renown local San Antonio archaeologist died at the age of 70 years.
Downtown San Antonio
Author: Joan Marston KortePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738584916
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Archvial photographs and text describe the history, social life and customs of San Antonio, Texas.
San Antonio de Béxar
Author: Jesús F. de la TejaPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A beautifully written history of the development of San Antonio in colonial Texas.
On a Mexican Mustang Through Texas, from the Gulf to the Rio Grande
Author: Alexander Edwin SweetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description