Arquitectura y religiosidad en el centro-norte novohispano (1775-1816) : artificio e historia en un espacio de culto / Marco Alejandro Sifuentes Solís.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sifuentes Solís, M. Alejandro (Marco Alejandro), 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church architecture--Mexico--Aguascalientes (State)--History.

Church architecture.

Architecture, Baroque--Mexico--Aguascalientes (State)--History.

Architecture, Baroque.

Neoclassicism (Architecture)--Mexico--Aguascalientes (State)--History.

Neoclassicism (Architecture).

History.

Mexico--Aguascalientes (State).

Physical Description:

412 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

Primera edición.

Place of Publication:

Aguascalientes, Ags. : Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, 2016.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

"The intellectual project that underlies this book orbits around the cultural history and its specific relation, both to the religious practices of particular individuals and to the products of their devotion that took form, among other fields in the architecture for the catholic cult in an historical period characterized by the transit of the old regime to the modern world, that was determinant for the later development of the nations of the West." (HKB Translation) --Page [17]

Contents:

Prefacio

Introducción

Capítulo 1. Los escenarios finiseculares de una piedad pragmática

Capítulo 2. El artificio teológico

Capítulo 3. El artificio técnico

Capítulo 4. El artificio político

A modo de epílogo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-400) and index.

ISBN:

9786078457724

6078457721

OCLC:

1018394926