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Ragamala paintings are a form of Indian miniature painting, a set of illustrative paintings of the Ragamala or "Garland of Ragas", depicting variations of the Indian musical modes called ragas. They stand as a classical example of the amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India. Ragamala paintings were created in most ...
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San Juan Nepomuceno Santo statuette by Felipe de la Espada, born in San Germán, Puerto Rico ca. 1754. When the Spanish first arrived in Puerto Rico, one of their primary tools in converting the indigenous Taíno population were statuettes, known as Santos, depicting the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, and other Catholic icons (the practice of religious sculpture already existed on the island ...
Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP) is an art museum located on Avenida Las Américas in Ponce, Puerto Rico. [6][7][8][9] It houses a collection of European art, [7] as well as works by Puerto Rican artists. The museum contains one of the most important Pre-Raphaelite collections in the Western Hemisphere, [10] holding some 4,500 pieces of art [5][11 ...
Dimensions. 240 cm × 400 cm (96 in × 156 in) Location. Museum of Art, History, and Anthropology of the UPR, San Juan, Puerto Rico. El Velorio (Spanish for "The Wake") is an 1893 8-by-13-foot painting by Puerto Rican Impressionist painter Francisco Oller depicting a baquiné, a type of traditional wake. This painting is considered one of the ...
Rooster fighting is a sport that has been part of the Puerto Rican culture for centuries. In 1845, Manuel Alonso, in his book El Gíbaro, wrote that maybe a barrio could lack a church, but no barrio of Puerto Rico lacked a cockfighting venue. The sport was passed in families, from generation to generation.
13000284 [ 2 ] Castillo San Felipe del Morro (English: Promontory Castle of Saint Philip), most commonly known as El Morro(The Promontory), is a large fortress and citadel in the historic district of Old San Juan in Puerto Rico. Commissioned by King Charles I of Spain in 1539, it was first built as a fortified tower in honor of King Philip II ...
In 1929, Puerto Rico's legislature granted women the right to vote, pushed by the United States Congress to do so. Only women who could read and write were enfranchised; however, in 1935, all adult women were enfranchised regardless of their level of literacy. Puerto Rico was the second Latin American country to recognize a woman's right to ...