Early Churches of Mexico: An Architect's View

by Beverley Spears

Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs. Virtually unknown outside Mexico, these complexes unite architecture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826358179
• ISBN13: 9780826358172
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 7.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 12.4" x 9.3"