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Month: December 2024

  • Manila’s Monument to Queen Isabel II

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    The statue of Queen Isabel II is one of few public artworks that survive from the time of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines. Located in front of Puerta Isabel II in Intramuros, Manila, this bronze monument has weathered the vicissitudes of Philippine history and the shifting tides of politics and empire. Commissioned in the…

  • Juan Adán Morlán (1741–1816)

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    Juan Adán Morlán (1741–1816) is one of the defining sculptors of Spanish Neoclassicism, a figure whose artistic achievements were often intertwined with personal controversies and professional disputes. Born in Tarazona, Aragón, and baptized on March 1, 1741, Adán’s early life was rooted in a family of carpenters. His father’s craft provided the young Adán with…

  • The Soldier’s Reward by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer

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    I just made a purchase request from the library for The Soldier’s Reward, drawn in by Jennifer Ngaire Heuer’s ability to unearth the deeply personal dimensions of a quarter-century of conflict. She reveals how war’s chaos was not just a matter of battlefield tactics but something that profoundly shaped the quiet rhythms of family life…

  • Pasig River (1948) by Miguel Galvez

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    The Pasig River (1948), an oil on canvas by Miguel Galvez, captures two fishing vessels moored along the riverbank—a quiet tableau of industry and resilience. Galvez depicts Filipinos easing back into the rhythms of labor and life, just three years after the devastation of war. The composition feels deliberate and balanced. The two boats, painted…

  • Lost and Found (1996) – Ode to Love and Loss

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    Lee Chi-Ngai’s Lost and Found (1996) is one of those delicate little films that dares to press on your heartstrings and doesn’t let go. It knows what it’s about—love, loss, and the refusal to surrender to despair—and delivers its message with an earnestness so determined that it’s almost disarming. Of course, you know where it’s…

  • Marca Demonio de las Comparaciones: Die anachronistische Substitution des Kris Joloano in Rizal und Amorsolo

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    Diese Studie untersucht die anachronistische Präsenz des Kris Joloano in José Rizals Noli Me Tangere (1887) und Fernando Amorsolos Marca Demonio, dem Etikett für den Ginebra San Miguel-Likör, das 1917 geschaffen wurde. Aufbauend auf Nagels und Woods Untersuchung von Anachronismen während der Renaissance positioniert die Analyse die neugierige Einfügung eines Kris Joloano als zeitliche Brücke,…

  • Pearls in Islamic Art from the Umayyads to the Ottomans

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    In Islamic art and culture, pearls symbolize divine light, purity, and paradise, and serve as markers of spiritual authority and sovereign power. Nacreous objects were central to trade networks across the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean, integrating them into Islamic artistic and economic systems. Historical studies tell of their layered significance: as royal emblems in Late…

  • Galo Ocampo’s Brown Madonna

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    Fig. 29 Galo Ocampo, Brown Madonna, 1938 Photo: UST Museum Collection A few years after Rising Philippines, Galo B. Ocampo advanced his fusion of local iconography and modernist style by reimagining the Madonna and Child as unmistakably Filipino. Depicted with Filipino features, traditional dress, and surrounded by native vegetation, Ocampo roots this iconic Catholic image…