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| Kuwaresma, a 45-minute video, that features and gives a sympathetic analysis of the popular rites of Lent and Holy Week. The old and the new, indigenous and colonial traditions, the institutional church and the people create a celebration colorful, unique and moving. The video highlights the celebrations in Laguna, Rizal and Bulacan. In Filipino.
Director: Joey Conti Bookmark Video and Moving Images |
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book cornerFor starters here are some books that will help you know more about the cultural heritage of the Filipinos during the Spanish colonial period. Alarcon, Norma. 1991. Philippine Architecture during the Pre-spanish and Spanish Periods. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Press. (New edition: 1998). Casal, Gabriel, Eric S. Casiño, George R. Ellis, Regalado Trota Jose, and Wilhelm G. Solheim II. 1981. The People and Arts of the Philippines. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, University of California. Published in connection with a 1981 exhibit in Los Angeles. Castañeda, Dominador. 1964. Art in the Philippines. Quezon City: Office of Research Coordination, University of the Philippines. A pioneering survey of art in the Philippines. Out of print. Coseteng, Alicia M.L. 1972 Spanish Churches of the Philippines. Manila: Mercury Press. A initial study of the churches built during the Spanish colonial period. Contains illustrations, architectural sketches, and black and white photographs. Out of print. Galende, Pedro and René Javellana, 1992. Great Churches of the Philippines. Makati: Bookmark, Inc. (2nd Edition: 1996) An introduction to the history, architecture and art of Spanish colonial churches. Galende, Pedro. 1996. Angels in Stone: Augustinian Churches in the Philippines. Manila: San Agustin Museum. A new edition of Fr. Galende’s monumental 1987 study on the churches built by the Augustinian order. The first of the religious orders to evangelize the Philippines, the Augustinians established their first monastery in Cebu, now called Basilica Minore del Santo Niño. They built the oldest stone church in the Philippines, popularly called San Agustin, built 1587-1605. Contains colored photographs by Dick Baldovino. Gatbonton, Juan. 1980. Philippine Churches. Manila: National Media Production Center. Javellana, René. 1991. Wood and Stone for God’s Greater Glory: Jesuit Art and Architecture in the Philippines. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. Jose, Jr., Regalado Trota. 1991. Simbahan: Church Art in Colonial Philippines. Makati: Ayala Museum. An introduction to the architecture and art of colonial churches, also a handbook for museologists. Illustrated with vintage photographs. Zialcita, Fernando N. and Martin I. Tinio, Jr. 1980. Philippine Ancestral Houses, 1810-1930. Quezon City: GCF Books. A book focusing on domestic architecture from 1810-1930. Traces the roots of Philippine ancestral houses or bahay na bato to the bahay kubo of folk architecture. Contains photographs and architectural plans. Zobel de Ayala, Fernando. 1963. Philippine Religious Imagery. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. With a group of enthusiasts, artist and art critic Fernando Zobel pioneered studies in Philippine colonial art. An expansion of an essay which appeared in the journal Philippine Studies, Philippine Religious Imagery is an attempt at stylistic categorization and systematization of the vast output of religious statuary and painting during three centuries of Spanish rule. |
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