Research Catalog

Title

The California missions / text by Rubén G. Mendoza ; photography by Melba Levick.

Author

Mendoza, Ruben G.

Publication

• New York : Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2018.
• ©2018

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Levick, Melba

Description

256 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Magical spaces rich in history, the missions of California, featured here in all-new photography, invite reverie and hint of romance. The twenty-one missions of California, from San Diego to San Francisco Solano, are historic treasures and sites of pilgrimage for visitors from the world over. Intrinsically beautiful structures typically built of adobe brick and wood, adorned with towers, domes, whitewashed stucco, often surrounded by lush gardens, the missions are at the very heart of California. Established by Spanish padres, built by Native Californians, and preserved and restored by historians and architects, California's missions are unique monuments to the region's early American Indian and European histories. This colorful, informative exploration of all twenty-one missions, each with its own rich story to tell, journeys along the historic Camino Real, from Mission Dolores with its flower-strewn courtyard gardens, in San Francisco, to San Juan Capistrano, famous for the swallows that flock to its inviting grounds. --

Subjects

• Missions, Spanish
• California
• Franciscans
• History
• Catholic Church
• To 1846
• Missions, Spanish > California > History
• Catholic Church Missions > California
• Catholic Church California > History
• California > History > To 1846
• Franciscans Missions > California > History
• Missions > California

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Missions contact information (page 254).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes selected bibliographical references (page 255).

Contents

• Prelude to the Californias : Serra in the Sierra Corda (1750-1758) -- First foundings : San Diego de Alcalá (1769) - San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel, 1770) -- Inland missions : San Antonio de Padua (1771) - San Gabriel Arcángel (1771) - San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (1772) -- Missions of the Seraphic Father : San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores, 1776) - San Juan Capistrano (1776) - Santa Clara de Asís (1777) -- Serra's Channel missions : San Buenaventura (1782) - Santa Bárbara (1786) - La Purísima Concepción de Maria Santísima (1787) -- Holy Cross and the Mission of Solitude : Santa Cruz (1791) - Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1791) -- Lasuén's legacy : San José (1797) - San Juan Bautista (1797) - San Miguel Arcángel (1797) - San Fernando Rey de España (1797) - San Luis Rey de Francia (1798) -- The end of an era : Santa Inés, Virgen y Mártir (1804), San Rafael Arcángel (1817) - San Francisco Solano (1823).
• Prelude to the Californias -- First foundings -- Inland missions -- Missions of the Seraphic Father -- Serra's channel missions -- Holy cross and the mission of solitude -- Lasuén's legacy -- The end of an era.

ISBN

• 9780847861514
• 0847861511

LCCN

2017956527

OCLC

• 993418972
• SCSB-9162398

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries