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Mission San Xavier del Bac : a guide to its iconography / Yvonne Lange with Richard E. Ahlborn ; photographs by Helga Teiwes.

Title
Mission San Xavier del Bac : a guide to its iconography / Yvonne Lange with Richard E. Ahlborn ; photographs by Helga Teiwes.
Author
Lange, Yvonne, 1918-2003.
Publication
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2004.
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Additional Authors
  • Ahlborn, Richard E.
  • Teiwes, Helga.
Description
xiv, 164 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
A guide to the iconography of San Xavier Mission identifies devotional representations and determines the organizational concepts underlying their placements in the Spanish mission church south of Tucson, Arizona, examining the sculpture on the facade and inside, along with furnishings such as altars and altarpieces and their accompanying imagery, and paintings in fresco and on canvas.
Subject
  • Catholic Church > In art
  • Mission San Xavier del Bac (Tucson, Ariz.)
  • Since 1500
  • Christian art and symbolism > Tucson > Modern period, 1500-
  • Church decoration and ornament > Tucson
Genre/Form
Art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.146-152) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Chapter 1 Organizational Principles 5 -- Chapter 2 Catalog of Themes 19 -- Chapter 3 Dictionary of Subjects, Personages, Symbols, and Emblems 32 -- Chapter 4 Locating Images and Emblems at San Xavier del Bac 127 -- Chapter 5 Jesuit Retentions; Conclusions 135.
ISBN
  • 0816522006 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0816522014 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2004006909
OCLC
  • 123221465
  • SCSB-10014080
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library