This document contains summaries of four artifacts from Philippine history:
1) A 44-page sketchbook-diary of Juan Luna from his travels to Japan in the 19th century that is being auctioned with a starting bid of 1 million pesos.
2) A traditional Maria Clara dress from a Philippine novel consisting of a collarless camisa, floor-length saya skirt, neck-covering pañuelo, and hip-hugging tapis overskirt.
3) A prominent Igorot headhunting axe from the ancient Cordillera tribes who inhabited the Philippines as early as 500 BC and developed famous rice terraces.
4) A painting of the Virgin Mary discovered
This document contains summaries of four artifacts from Philippine history:
1) A 44-page sketchbook-diary of Juan Luna from his travels to Japan in the 19th century that is being auctioned with a starting bid of 1 million pesos.
2) A traditional Maria Clara dress from a Philippine novel consisting of a collarless camisa, floor-length saya skirt, neck-covering pañuelo, and hip-hugging tapis overskirt.
3) A prominent Igorot headhunting axe from the ancient Cordillera tribes who inhabited the Philippines as early as 500 BC and developed famous rice terraces.
4) A painting of the Virgin Mary discovered
This document contains summaries of four artifacts from Philippine history:
1) A 44-page sketchbook-diary of Juan Luna from his travels to Japan in the 19th century that is being auctioned with a starting bid of 1 million pesos.
2) A traditional Maria Clara dress from a Philippine novel consisting of a collarless camisa, floor-length saya skirt, neck-covering pañuelo, and hip-hugging tapis overskirt.
3) A prominent Igorot headhunting axe from the ancient Cordillera tribes who inhabited the Philippines as early as 500 BC and developed famous rice terraces.
4) A painting of the Virgin Mary discovered
This document contains summaries of four artifacts from Philippine history:
1) A 44-page sketchbook-diary of Juan Luna from his travels to Japan in the 19th century that is being auctioned with a starting bid of 1 million pesos.
2) A traditional Maria Clara dress from a Philippine novel consisting of a collarless camisa, floor-length saya skirt, neck-covering pañuelo, and hip-hugging tapis overskirt.
3) A prominent Igorot headhunting axe from the ancient Cordillera tribes who inhabited the Philippines as early as 500 BC and developed famous rice terraces.
4) A painting of the Virgin Mary discovered
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Name: RAINIER A.
RONDINA 2ME – B
Benedicto Cabrera
BenCab, as Cabrera is affectionately known in the
Philippines, is a well-known figure in the country's contemporary art scene and the best-selling commercial painter of his generation. At the University of the Philippines, he studied under José Joya and graduated with a degree in fine arts in 1963. His five-decade-long successful career has seen his paintings, etchings, sketches, and prints displayed across Asia, Europe, and the US. He constructed his own four-level BenCab Museum on Asin Road, which houses an eclectic collection of indigenous items, personal works, and an astounding collection of paintings by contemporary Filipino artists, where he currently dwells in the frigid northern hill station of Baguio.
Juan Luna’s Japanese sketchbook-diary
The 1896 notebook and journal of patriot
and master painter Juan V. Luna will be offered for auction at Leon Gallery's annual weekend Kingly Treasures auction on December 2. (1857–1899). According to Jaime Ponce de Leon of Leon Gallery, the 44-page sketchbook- diary has a starting bid of P1 million and measures 5" x 9" (13 cm x 23 cm). The artist's estate, Grace Luna de San Pedro's private collection, and the private holdings of Elizabeth Troster and Ruth Francis make up the provenance. The collection of artwork, drawings, and artifacts brought back from the United States included this record. which Far East Bank and Trust Company bought the most of and later given to the National Museum of the Philippines, according to Ponce de Leon. The sketchbook-diary served as a chronicle of Luna's travels to Japan. When the hitherto remote nation opened its borders to European trade in 1860, "Japonisme," or the infatuation with all things Japanese, initially took off, according to art history scribe Lisa G. Nakpil in the catalog. BRIDGING THE GAP
The unit of the government in the ancient
Philippines was the barangay, so called after the sailboats on which the early Malay immigrants sailed to the Philippines. The barangay was a settlement of 30 to 100 families. Each barangay was independent and was ruled by a chieftain called datu or raja. The datu obtained his position
A classic Maria Clara dress
This ensemble has a lot of variations, the most popular one is the Maria Clara Dress, a dress inspired by a female character in the epic novel Noli Me Tangere by national hero Jose Rizal. It features a floor-length paneled skirt of silk or satin, and it consists of four separate pieces: the collarless waist- length, bell sleeved camisa; the bubble-shaped, floor- length saya; the stiff, neck-covering pañuelo; and the hip-hugging, knee length tapis or overskirt.
The Igorot Headhunting Axe
The Igorot Headhunting Axe, the highland plutocracies of the cordilleras were one of the known oldest polities that inhabited the ancient philippines, they are already around by 500BC and had started working the now famous banaue rice terraces. This axe is the prominent weapon of the Igorot society since they are known for headhunting practice. Nuestra Senora de la Soledad de Porta Vaga
Fishermen and locals who frequently pass
through the Vaga Gate and work at the Cavite Royal Arsenal discovered a framed picture of the Virgin on the beach at Caacao Bay. They discovered it close to where she had appeared the night before. The parish priest received the painting and briefly hung it in the church. Along the port's ramparts, the Ermita de Porta Vaga (Chapel of Vaga Gate) was eventually constructed and housed the Shrine of Our Lady of Solitude for three centuries.