Architecture of the California Missions is primarily a study of mission architecture. The text discusses the four main styles of architecture of missions and its probable origin . The styles being: Primitive and Early Types; The Fortess Type; The Plateresque and the Barogue; and The Neoclassic Forms. Other sections of the book describe Characteristics of the Missions; The Existing Missions; and Missions That Time Has Destroyed. Many plates (photographs) are included showing the missions as they are today.
196/Hardbound/Illustrated/Photographs
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Nomenclature 4.0
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Book
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Other Documents
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Documentary Objects
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Category 08: Communication Objects
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Religion, Missions
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California, U.S.A., United States, Missions, Architecture, American Architecture, California History, Catholic
