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Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, 1892 – April 24, 1972) was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. Nicknamed the "Grand Old Man of Philippine Art," [2] he was the first-ever to be recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines. [3]
15th century bulul with a pamahan (ceremonial bowl) in the Louvre Museum Wooden images of the ancestors in a museum in Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines. Bulul, also known as bu-lul or tinagtaggu, is a carved wooden figure used to guard the rice crop by the Ifugao (and their sub-tribe Kalanguya) people of northern Luzon.
Mutuc's pukpuk pilak NCCA. Eduardo Tubig Mutuc [1] is a Filipino metalsmith and sculptor. [2] He is a known to be a practitioner of the craft of pinukpuk which involved the stamping of embellishments on metal sheets.
In Spain, he studied medicine and, literature and philosophy at the Universidad Central de Madrid and sculpture, drawing and art in San Carlos University. [ 2 ] He was among the illustrados , Filipino intelligentsia of the Spanish colonial period , where he would collaborate with other elite Filipino artisans Juan Luna , Felix Resurreccion ...
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.
Order of National Artists of the Philippines Lázaro Francisco y Angeles , also known as Lazaro A. Francisco (February 22, 1898 – June 17, 1980) was a Filipino novelist , essayist and playwright .
The Ilustrisimo clan from Bantayan Island in the Northern part of the Cebu region, was known for their Eskrima and has practiced its own traditional stick and sword fighting style for over five generations. Its first known practitioner was Pablo Ilustrisimo who passed it on to Juan de Dios Ilustrisimo, who then passed it to the brothers Isidro ...
The monument features four lion sculptures which is symbolically meant to be the guardians of Santa Rosa. These features is the origin of Santa Rosa's title as the "Lion City of South Luzon". [3] The arch also had a structured staircase, a sunburst design on its alcove, and a grand lady flaming torch and features a wraparound balcony. [5]