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Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821 (Southwest Center Series)

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Over nearly three centuries, Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican missionaries built a network of churches right through the “new world” of New Spain. Since the early twentieth century, scholars have studied the colonial architecture of southern New Spain, but they have got in large part ignored the architecture of the north. Alternatively, as this book clearly demonstrates, the colonial architecture of Northern New Spain—an area that encompasses a few of the southwestern United States and much of northern Mexico—is strikingly beautiful and wealthy with meaning. After more than two decades of research, both in the field and in archives world wide, Gloria Fraser Giffords has authored the definitive book on this architecture.Giffords has a remarkable eye for detail and for images both grand and diminutive. Because such a lot of of the buildings she examines have been destroyed, she sleuthed through historical records in several countries, and she found out that the architecture and material culture of northern New Spain reveal the influences of five continents. As she examines objects as large as churches or as small as ornamental ceramic tile she illuminates the once in a while subtle, once in a while striking influences of the religious, social, and artistic traditions of Europe (from the beginning of the Christian era through the nineteenth century), of the Muslim countries ringing the Mediterranean (from the seventh through the fifteenth centuries), and of Northern New Spain’s indigenous peoples (whose art influenced the designs of occupying Europeans).Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light is a pathbreaking book, featuring 200 stunning photographs and over 300 illustrations ranging from ceremonial garments to detailed floor plans of the churches.

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