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They are the oldest known work of art in the Philippines. [1] These inscriptions clearly show stylized human figures, frogs and lizards, along with other designs that may have depicted other interesting figures but erosion may have caused it to become indistinguishable. The engravings are mostly symbolic representations and are associated with ...
Allegorical work symbolizing science illuminating the world. Gift to Ferdinand Blumentritt. [2]: 134 Sculpture given by Jose Rizal to Ferdinand Blumentritt: The Triumph of Death over Life: Exhibited at the Dresden Museum of Modern Art, [2] now at Rizal Shrine, Intramuros [7] Allegorical work representing the death as a hooded skeleton embracing ...
Filipino art experts, historians, and researchers have four theories on the identity of the sitter in Luna's La Bulaqueña despite the lack of any photographs. According to Emilio Aguilar Cruz, a columnist for the Philippine Daily Globe newspaper, the woman in the portrait could be a woman Luna had courted after losing his wife Paz Pardo de Tavera.
Qing dynasty painting. The depiction includes Luzones delegates the late 1750s, visiting the Qianlong Emperor in the Forbidden city in Beijing. [1]Luzones (Portuguese: Luções, pronounced; also Luzones in Spanish) was a demonym [2] used by Portuguese sailors in Malaysia [3] during the early 1500s, referring to the Kapampangan and Tagalog people who lived in Manila Bay, which was then called ...
Letras y figuras (Spanish, "letters and figures") is a genre of painting pioneered by José Honorato Lozano during the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines. The art form is distinguished by the depiction of letters of the alphabet using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called ...
The University of Santo Tomas Museum owns one of Asuncion’s paintings, dated February 1862. An unsigned portrait of Fr. Melchor Garcia de Sampedro at the UST Museum is said to be the work of Asuncion. Most of his other works are kept as national treasures at the Central Bank of the Philippines and the Philippines Museum.
España y Filipinas (“Spain and the Philippines") is a series of oil on wood paintings [1] [2] by Filipino painter, Ilustrado, and revolutionary activist, Juan Luna.It is an allegorical depiction [3] of two women together, one a representation of Spain and the other of the Philippines. [4]
The Odalisque is a famous 1885 painting [1] by award-winning Filipino painter and revolutionary activist Juan Luna.It is one of Luna's so-called "Academic Salon portraits" that followed the standards of proper proportion and perspective, and realistic depictions with "an air of dignity and allure".