wyszukanych pozycji: 11
La Conquistadora (Chavez): The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue
ISBN: 9780913270431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written as an autobiography, the author lets this famous willow wood statue speak for herself, tell her own story from the time she was brought to New Mexico in 1625 by Fray Benavides until the present. Many photographs bring this remarkable history to life. Fray Angelico researched, translated and annotated facts about the statue's history, its religious society, its fiestas and chapels, correcting the mistakes and folklore held as truth for more than two centuries. Fray Angelico Chavez has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen...
Written as an autobiography, the author lets this famous willow wood statue speak for herself, tell her own story from the time she was brought to New...
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56,56 zł |
Chavez: A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico, Facsimile of 1989 Edition
ISBN: 9780865346536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. He has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way you measure his career, Fray Angelico Chavez was an unexpected phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest. In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in 1937, Chavez performed the difficult duties of an isolated backcountry pastor. His assignments included Hispanic villages and Indian pueblos. As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards that because of...
He has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way you measure his caree...
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108,98 zł |
But Time and Change: The Story of Padre Martinez of Taos, 1793-1867
ISBN: 9780913270950 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance happenethto them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11With these words, the epitaph Padre Martnez chose for himself, the reader is drawn into a stirring and provocative biography recounted by a master storyteller.Fray Angelico Chavez, articulate and well-versed in New Mexicana, vividly records the life of the controversial Padre of Taos so that the reader gains full measure of his surroundings and o the times.Martnez was continually at the forefront of the public and political forums...
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong . . . but time and chance happenethto them all. Ecc...
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74,04 zł |
La Conquistadora (Chavez): The Autobiography of an Ancient Statue
ISBN: 9781632934208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,92 zł |
But Time and Chance: The Story of Padre Martinez of Taos, 1793-1867
ISBN: 9781632935830 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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152,66 zł |
My Penitente Land: Reflections of Spanish New Mexico
ISBN: 9781632933461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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165,76 zł |
New Mexico Triptych
ISBN: 9780865347717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A gentle wood carver whose santos are stolen; an old hunchback who, with the help of Our Lady, comes into her own; a horse thief innocent of wrong intents-theirs are the stories that Fray Angelico paints, framing them with exquisite art in the manner of the medieval triptych. Born and bred in the land of sunshine and silence, Fray Angelico Chavez has a threefold heritage and a threefold gift. Heir to the artistic tradition of Spanish New Mexico, steeped in the spirit of Franciscan mysticism, and word-perfect in the folklore of the adobe village, he interprets the ageless spirit of his people...
A gentle wood carver whose santos are stolen; an old hunchback who, with the help of Our Lady, comes into her own; a horse thief innocent of wrong int...
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87,14 zł |
Chavez
ISBN: 9781632932761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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152,66 zł |
Our Lady of the Conquest
ISBN: 9780865347472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As the Spaniards were preparing to reconquer Santa Fe from the Pueblo Indians in 1692, Captain-General Don Diego de Vargas solemnly vowed to build a special chapel for his own favorite statue of Our Lady of the Rosary should he gain a quick victory, and also to hold a yearly procession in her honor. The image was carried into battle and the Spaniards gained an effective conquista, and thereafter this particular image came to be known as La Conquistadora. Other legends and practices grew around these bare essentials of the story. Many people have tried, in all sincerity, to evaluate the...
As the Spaniards were preparing to reconquer Santa Fe from the Pueblo Indians in 1692, Captain-General Don Diego de Vargas solemnly vowed to build a s...
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87,14 zł |
The Missions of New Mexico, 1776: A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez with Other Contemporary Documents
ISBN: 9781632934895 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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213,81 zł |
The Missions of New Mexico, 1776: A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez with Other Contemporary Documents
ISBN: 9780865348691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, canonical inspector of the missions of New Mexico in 1776, compared most everything in New Mexico to Mexico City, "the delightful and alluring cradle of my birth, for which no praise is ever adequate." And hardly anything measured up. He disparaged the people of New Mexico and the religious art of Spanish immigrant Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco. Then, by an ironic twist later in 1776, Dominguez found himself on a five-month vision quest with Miera and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante. Dominguez likened New Mexican churches to hacienda granaries, wine cellars,...
Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, canonical inspector of the missions of New Mexico in 1776, compared most everything in New Mexico to Mexico City, "...
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196,56 zł |