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17: 80:. The earliest example of this art form dates from 1845; the latest existing specimens were completed during the latter portion of the American period in the 1930s during the administration of the 156: 51: 304: 282: 134: 215: 104:
The BALVINO MAURICIO was completed by José Honorato Lozano in November 1864 for its namesake, Balvino Mauricio, a
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using a genre of painting that contoured shapes of human figures, animals, plants, and other objects called
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Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
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house of that time. This house is believed to be the same house described by
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In 1995, an album of José Honorato Lozano's paintings were auctioned at
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The IMELDA ROMUALDEZ MARCOS, of unknown provenance. Housed in the
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who commissioned the work. The paintings were done with
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Index


José Honorato Lozano
Spanish
genre
painting
José Honorato Lozano
Spanish colonial period in the Philippines
alphabet
Tipos del País
Damián Domingo
patron
watercolor
Manila paper
Commonwealth of the Philippines
Christie’s
£
Binondo
1872 Cavite mutiny
cm
Manila
José Rizal
Noli Me Tángere
Malacañang Museum
First Lady
Imelda Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Filipino
Alvaro Jimenez
Ayala Museum
Christmas card

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