Jesuit Mission Churches in Chiquitos Bolivia - Mestizo Baroque Architecture Book

by Jaime Cisneros

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Jesuit Mission Churches in Chiquitos Bolivia - Mestizo Baroque Architecture Book Striking bilingual Spanish-English photographic and historical study of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos in eastern Bolivia, one of the most important surviving legacies of the Jesuit reductions in South America. Richly illustrated with color photography of mission churches, carved altars, crucifixes, indigenous religious art, colonial architecture, painted interiors, sculpture, and sacred spaces associated with the Chiquitanía region and the Jesuit evangelization campaigns of the 17th and 18th centuries. The book explores the founding and development of the Jesuit reductions established among the Chiquitos indigenous peoples after the arrival of the Society of Jesus in the Spanish colonial frontier regions east of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Historical references include San Ignacio de Loyola (Ignatius of Loyola), founder of the Jesuit Order in 1543, and missionaries José Arce, Antonio Rivas, Francisco Javier, San Rafael, San José, San Juan, Concepción, San Miguel, San Ignacio, Santiago, Santa Ana, and Santo Corazón. The text discusses the role of the missions in protecting indigenous communities from Portuguese slave raiders and bandeirantes while creating highly organized religious, artistic, agricultural, and musical communities deep in the tropical forests of Bolivia. The Chiquitos Jesuit Missions were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990, recognized for their extraordinary fusion of E

• Binding: Hardcover
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