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Arts Week 2

The document summarizes important architectural and sculptural works found in Luzon, Philippines. It describes several Spanish colonial-era churches built with materials like adobe, bricks and lime, featuring Baroque and Rococo styles. It also mentions the Bul'ul sculptures of the Ifugao people used to guard rice, and Paete's woodcarving tradition. Finally, it outlines the origins and symbolism of Higantes figures carried during festivals in Angono, Rizal.

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Arts Week 2

The document summarizes important architectural and sculptural works found in Luzon, Philippines. It describes several Spanish colonial-era churches built with materials like adobe, bricks and lime, featuring Baroque and Rococo styles. It also mentions the Bul'ul sculptures of the Ifugao people used to guard rice, and Paete's woodcarving tradition. Finally, it outlines the origins and symbolism of Higantes figures carried during festivals in Angono, Rizal.

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The Majestic

Architecture and
Sculpture of Luzon
ARCHITECTURE
- Calle
Crisologo is a narrow and
Calle Crisologo cobbled stoned 15th Century
Spanish Street in Vigan, Ilocos Sur
and is considered to be one of the
heritage sites in the Philippines.
- It is lined with antique houses,
and shops leading to the town's
hundred-year-old churches
Vigan is considered as the
“Intramuros of the North”, which
retains the Spanish colonial
architecture - a fullness of life on the
celebration of Festival of the Arts.
• adobe, bricks, lime, terracotta,
hardwood floors, and windows of
capiz shells framed in wooden
window panels with huge, high-
pitched roofs, large and rectangular
living rooms.
Tumauini Church
• Tumauini Church is a
Baroque church that was
built in 1873 and can be
found in municipality of
Tumuini, Isabela.
• The structure was built entirely of red bricks and
done in the style of Late Baroque or Early Rococo.
• It has a four-story bell tower that looks like a
wedding cake.
• It is a Roman Catholic Parish Church of San
Matias Apostol
• Most artistic brick structure in the country.
•Spanish Gate, located in Olongapo
City, Zambales was built in 1885 and
serves as the entrance to the original
Spanish naval station that provides
repair, ammunition, supply, and
medical support for ships.
•It has high walls made from locally-
quarried stone connected to the
south gate that faced the waterfront.
•It was used as a jail during Spanish
and American occupation.
San Andres Apostol Parish Church
• popularly known as Masinloc Church, is a 19th-century
Baroque church located at Brgy. South Poblacion,
Masinloc, Zambales.
• The church structure is a standout among Spanish-era
churches in the Central Luzon region for having been
built with coral stone instead of adobe stone
• It has saints’ niches, vertical windows, carved niche of
the town’s patron saint, and has carving of geometric
shapes and medallions on the pediment
• Its belfry is designed like a circular template with lantern
and cross
Parish of the Three Kings
• Parish of the Three Kings in Gapan City is
a Roman Catholic Church built in 1800s
and is one of the biggest and oldest
churches in Nueva Ecija.
• The church is made of bricks, adobe
and lime.
• has huge side doorways, with two
standing images of their patron saints
on both sides and a mural of the Holy
Trinity on the ceiling with the style of
Byzantine architecture.
Saint Dominic De Guzman Parish Church
• The Saint Dominic De Guzman Parish Church also
known as Abucay Church, is a 17th-century
Baroque church located at Brgy. Laon, Abucay,
Bataan, Philippines
• It has single or coupled Doric columns, two saint
niches in the main portal and one in the center.
• It was built in 1587 and was administered in
1588 by the Dominicans
• Renaissance architecture with five-layer bell
tower defined by decorative balusters and
ornamented with semicircular arched windows
SCULPTURE
Bul’ul • Bul’ul is a wooden sculpture also known as
bul-ul or tinagtaggu that represents the rice
granary spirits that guard the rice crop of
Ifugaos.
• It is a carved wooden human figure with
simplified forms made from a narra tree
which signifies wealth, happiness, and well-
being to the Ifugao.
• Paete in Laguna is considered as the
“Woodcarving Capital of the Philippines”.
• Paete is popular for the carving culture of
saints and other religious images,
decorative carvings of floral patterns and
geometric designs
HIGANTES
• Higantes are big papier mache caricatures of humans that represent
farmers and fishermen but according to stories, the original higantes
were representation of hacienderos during the Spanish colonial period.
• The higantes are rendered as a man or woman in various costumes.
• Their faces give a commanding look with their hands on the waist.
• The earliest “ higantes” are composed of a father, mother, and a child.
• It originated in the “Art Capital of the Philippines”, the Angono, Rizal
Province

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