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The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
"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 rebuilt or 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...
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