tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post2274301071252234250..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Santa Barbara Mission, historical gardensHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-6840605205475937782012-05-22T09:41:27.395+10:002012-05-22T09:41:27.395+10:00Thank you Anonymous
One of the joys of blogging i...Thank you Anonymous<br /><br />One of the joys of blogging is to receive readings suggestions from people we don't know... about authors we have not read before. I will find the Mann book in our academic library. <br /><br />The researchers and curators at Santa Barbara Mission certainly recognise those enormous international changes that were inaugurated by the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Their problem was to select 1786 as the starting point.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-82694135836209977832012-05-22T09:40:50.295+10:002012-05-22T09:40:50.295+10:00Thank you Anonymous
One of the joys of blogging i...Thank you Anonymous<br /><br />One of the joys of blogging is to receive readings suggestions from people we don't know... about authors we have not read before. I will find the Mann book in our academic library. <br /><br />The researchers and curators at Santa Barbara Mission certainly recognise those enormous international changes that were inaugurated by the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Their problem was to select 1786 as the starting point.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-57395209745558460982012-05-22T07:36:34.515+10:002012-05-22T07:36:34.515+10:00Helen, check out this book: 1493, by Chatrles C. M...Helen, check out this book: 1493, by Chatrles C. Mann. He discusses the results in the rest of the world, of the 'discovery' of the American Continents, particularly in the distribution of foods that no one had ever heard of: potatoes, tomatoes etc....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-28451319898395982362012-05-14T23:33:01.536+10:002012-05-14T23:33:01.536+10:00Ioana
welcome to the wonderful world of art and a...Ioana<br /><br />welcome to the wonderful world of art and architecture, and landscape design.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-31891278138983592192012-05-13T12:51:37.307+10:002012-05-13T12:51:37.307+10:00IdleHistorian,
agreed...the Spanish couldn't ...IdleHistorian,<br /><br />agreed...the Spanish couldn't have selected a more beautiful region anywhere to build on. The Camino Real is close to the ocean all along its route, the weather is stunning, the soils are rich and the Spanish architecture was perfectly adapted.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-69978429582970947952012-05-13T04:50:41.318+10:002012-05-13T04:50:41.318+10:00Thanks for posting this Hels! The mission (and the...Thanks for posting this Hels! The mission (and the entire area around Santa Barbara) is just beautiful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-16662959058493036672012-05-12T23:34:50.752+10:002012-05-12T23:34:50.752+10:00Deb
a terrific map of all the missions can be fou...Deb<br /><br />a terrific map of all the missions can be found at http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com.au/2010/02/spanish-missions-in-california.html<br /><br />Note that only two missions were created north of San Francisco, San Rafael and the Mission San Francisco Solano, founded in Sonoma in 1823, the last mission opened. So they are easy to get to. <br /><br />Although a couple of the missions are in ruins, many of them are still used for Catholic worship, retaining at least some of original architectural and historical elements.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-50435266928314319462012-05-12T23:01:08.012+10:002012-05-12T23:01:08.012+10:00We took the children to see Santa Barbara Mission....We took the children to see Santa Barbara Mission. We all loved it, adults and children. Where are the other 20 or 21 missions and can we visit some of them on our next visit to California?Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-26690443869478794502012-05-12T22:32:40.700+10:002012-05-12T22:32:40.700+10:00Jane and Lance
nod.. visitors and scholars seem t...Jane and Lance<br /><br />nod.. visitors and scholars seem to be fascinated. <br /><br />Santa Barbara Mission opened its outdoor museum called La Huerta Historic Gardens as recently as 2003. If they wanted ONLY plants that were specifically documented during the mission era, they had to do a great deal of research from primary sources, dating back to the late 18th century.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-4305988665083134502012-05-12T22:27:28.256+10:002012-05-12T22:27:28.256+10:00anni
my pleasure and welcome aboard.anni<br /><br />my pleasure and welcome aboard.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-20466149480152179182012-05-12T22:26:35.055+10:002012-05-12T22:26:35.055+10:00Hermes,
until a couple of years ago, I would say ...Hermes,<br /><br />until a couple of years ago, I would say exactly the same thing. I got interested in the topic originally because no-one could give a realistic explanation of Spanish mission architecture, so popular in the USA but almost unheard of in Australia.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-46763973836838328552012-05-12T19:57:16.648+10:002012-05-12T19:57:16.648+10:00Hello Hels:
Having spent half a lifetime, or so it...Hello Hels:<br />Having spent half a lifetime, or so it now seems, gardening, designing gardens and having a garden open to the public which did, in the years we made it, achieve National recognition, we have found this post particularly interesting. It is so good to know that the Santa Barbara Mission gardens are still preserved, even if in somewhat altered form. But then it must always be acknowledged, or so we think, that gardens are living things and as such subject to change.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-81071241068163264202012-05-12T18:11:56.003+10:002012-05-12T18:11:56.003+10:00what an interesting post!
anniwhat an interesting post!<br />anniThis is Belgiumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13717829942768478705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-64016094878424015522012-05-12T17:29:40.213+10:002012-05-12T17:29:40.213+10:00Had heard a little of this, just so fascinating, t...Had heard a little of this, just so fascinating, thanks Helen.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.com