Art of the old world in New Spain and The mission days of Alta California (1922)
Holway, Mary Gordon, d. 1922 · San Francisco : A.M. Robertson · leaf 80
ortune, but by that time New Spainwas filling the need for decoration, not only forreligious houses, but for the palaces and otherbuildings, through her own masters and the workof her native schools. It is a sad commentary upon the political con-dition of Mexico at the time that so little is left… … THE CAMARIN Seminary of San Martin, Mexico—Polychrome Statuary. AFTER THE CONQUEST 43 often for trifling sums, priceless treasures of Mex-ico. In 186O5 an expert critic, in an examination ofover two thousand paintings, discovered but a fewof European origin, yet the colonial period, underthe…
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