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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 Philippine revolution brought a wave of nationalistic literary works, with propagandists and revolutionaries advocating for Filipino representation or independence from Spanish authority. Illustrados like Pedro Alejandro Paterno, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and Jose Rizal contributed to the development of Philippine literature.
Philippine literature in Spanish (Spanish: Literatura filipina en español; Filipino: Literaturang Pilipino sa Espanyol) is a body of literature made by Filipino writers in the Spanish language. Today, this corpus is the third largest in the whole corpus of Philippine literature ( Philippine Literature in Filipino being the first, followed by ...
Las Damas Romanas (literally, "The Roman Dames"), also known as The Roman Maidens, The Roman Women, [1] or The Roman Ladies, [2] [3] is an oil on canvas painted in the style of Neo-Classicism by Juan Luna, one of the most famous Filipino painters of the Spanish period in the Philippines. [4]
Poetry, fiction, essays, and literary and art criticism are usually influenced by folk literature, which focuses on epics, ethnic mythology, and related stories and traditions. Calligraphy on a variety of media was used to create literary works; an example is Mangyan ambahan poetry. [254]
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]
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 text is an adaptation of the pre-Hispanic Filipino art of chanting epic poems as a part of oral tradition.After Christianity was introduced by the Spaniards in the 16th century, the Passion cycle was adapted into this native narrative form.