San Antonio's Spanish Missions: A Portrait
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San Antonio's Spanish Missions: A Portrait
By (Author) Lewis F. Fisher
Photographs by Mike Osborne
Foreword by Rev. David Garcia
Trinity University Press,U.S.
Trinity University Press,U.S.
4th January 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Architecture: religious buildings
Architecture
Conservation of buildings and building materials
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
History of the Americas
Physical Properties
Hardback
112
Width 228mm, Height 304mm
694g
Description
This elegant coffee-table volume displays more than 100 color photographs by architectural photographer Mike Osborne, providing a distinctive contemporary portrait of the five mission complexes, now partly restored, partly still in ruins. One, better known as the Alamo, is a memorial to its defenders in 1836. The four others comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Each section begins with a dramatic 19th-century image. Osbornes color photographs range from interior views of the Alamo to a mariachi mass at San Jos to a composite of rifle portholes in Espadas bastion, with other dramatic views of the missions and related landmarks in between.
Author Bio
Father David Garcia, formerly rector of San Antonio's San Fernando Cathedral, is Director, Old Spanish Missions for the Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio.
