Art and Time in Mexico: Architecture and Sculpture in Colonial Mexico

Author: Elizabeth Wilder Weissmann

ISBN: 0064301435

Number Of Pages: 304

Publisher: Westview Press

Details: In this survey of Mexican colonial architecture and sculpture, the text is complemented by photographs of convents, churches, cathedrals, plazas, civic buildings, aqueducts, palaces, houses, haciendas, hospitals, bridges, fountains, sculpture and decoration from all parts of Mexico. From the grand to the vernacular, from the 16th to the 19th century, the book covers major monuments in the cities as well as little-known buildings in remote areas.