Pamana Series 2020 – Baliktanaw: Adiós Beniting

By Fernando Zialcita y Nakpil Recently Benito Legarda y Fernandez (Benito Legarda V) passed away —  another victim of COVID-19. He meant many things to me. Despite an age gap of more than 15 years, we were good friends. WheAs a fellow scholar interested in promoting a more balanced view of the Spanish period, he […]

Pamana Series 2020 – Baliktanaw: GILDA Cordero-Fernando

by Fernando Zialcita y Nakpil Although Gilda would bounce me, as a baby, on her knee, my earliest memory of her was as a kid of eight or nine accompanying my mother to visit Gilda’s mother, Tita Nene, at their apartment on San Marcelino, Malate. Most likely my mother went there as well to buy […]

Pamana Series 2020 – Baliktanaw: Paul Rainer Sacristan Iturralde

By Abigail KoVolunteerKapitbahayan sa Kalye Bautista (KKB) Paul Rainer Sacristan Iturralde lived in Calle San Sebastian, Quiapo, Manila behind the San Sebastian Basilica in a two-storey wooden house built in 1920s which is considered a heritage house in the neighborhood.  The house typifies the architectural style of Bandehadong Bahay na Bato that was common during […]

Si PETRONA at ang mga Kababaihan ng Bahay Nakpil Bautista sa Kontemporaryong Sining

“Si PETRONA at ang mga Kababaihan ng Bahay Nakpil-Bautista sa Kontemporaryong Sining” 17 ng Setyembre 2020 ART in MANILA 1880s Manila reached its peak of prosperity in the 1880’s.  Its residents who had profited from trading in the world market developed an avid interest in art, posing for portraits, dedicating rooms with ornately decorated altars […]