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For, it is so common among us [Filipinos] to look up to a foreign talent…. [ 3 ] Several of Castrillo's most important works are monumental sculptures commemorating Filipino historical events or personalities, including Rajah Sulayman (1976), the People Power Monument (1993), The Battle of Zapote Bridge (1997) and the Bonifacio Shrine (1998).
Greek art, especially sculpture, continued to enjoy an enormous reputation, and studying and copying it was a large part of the training of artists, until the downfall of Academic art in the late 19th century. During this period, the actual known corpus of Greek art, and to a lesser extent architecture, has greatly expanded.
Basi Revolt Paintings by Esteban Pichay Villanueva National Museum- Vigan, Ilocos Sur: 1807: The paintings depict the Basi Revolt, also known as the Ambaristo Revolt in 1807 which was held in opposition to taxes on liquor in the Ilocos against the Spanish. The series of 14 paintings by Esteban Pichay Villanueva currently hangs at the National ...
The National Museum of Fine Arts (Filipino: Pambansang Museo ng Sining [1] [2]), formerly known as the National Art Gallery, is an art museum in Manila, Philippines. It is located on Padre Burgos Avenue across from the National Museum of Anthropology in the eastern side of Rizal Park .
José Honorato Lozano (1815 or 1821-1885) was a Filipino painter born in Manila.He is best known as the pioneering practitioner of the art form known as Letras y figuras, in which the letters of a patron's name is composed primarily by contoured arrangements of human figures surrounded by vignettes of scenes in Manila - an art form that may have derived loosely from illuminated manuscripts. [4]
La barca de Aqueronte, translated in English as The Boat of Charon [1] or Charon's Boat, [2] is an 1887 oil-on-canvas and allegorical painting [1] [2] by the Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo. The work was a gold medalist during the Exposicion General de las Filipinas [1] (International Philippine Exposition) in Madrid. [3]
One of the most important forms of Byzantine art was, and still is, the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669. Like the Cretan school, it combined Byzantine traditions with an increasing Western European artistic influence, and also saw the first signiand the National ...
Constancio Bernardo (December 22, 1913 – August 8, 2003) was a Filipino painter and professor. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is known for making the earliest modern geometric abstract paintings in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.