Early churches of Mexico : an architect's view / Beverley Spears ; foreword by Richard Perry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conquest and Conversion -- Anatomy of a Sixteenth-Century Convento -- Space and Ritual of Convento Architecture -- Architectural Styles -- Retablos, Murals, and Sculpture -- Grounds and Setting -- Time and Transformation -- Churches of Hidalgo -- Churches of the State of Mexico and Mexico City -- Churches of Morelos -- Churches of Puebla and Tlaxcala -- Churches of Michoacán -- Churches of Oaxaca -- Churches of Chiapas -- Churches of Yucatán -- Appendix. Chart of Sixteenth-Century Conventos.

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Following the Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early 1500s, Franciscan, Dominican, and Augustinian friars fanned out across the central and southern areas of the country, founding hundreds of mission churches and monasteries to evangelize the Native population. This book documents more than 120 of these remarkable sixteenth-century sites in duotone black-and-white photographs.

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