Justiniano asuncion biography of donald
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Property of a private Swedish Estate.
Justiniano Asunción was a Filipino painter and politician.
Asunción was born into a prosperous kinesisk Filipino family in the Santa Cruz district of Manila. He was one of six brothers, who were all renowned artists. The Asunción brothers operated an art studio and workshop.
In 1853, Asunción was elected cabeza de barangay (a municipal office) of his native Santa Cruz, which made him a member of the principalia ruling class working in cooperation with the Spanish government. This position gave him his alias Capitan Ting.
Asunción was known for the detailed realism, accuracy, and the three dimensional feel of his paintings. He painted life-sized pieces and miniature-sized works. He painted religious images, portraits, and tipos del pais (“types of the country”, native dress) paintings.
Asunción studied at the Escuela dem Dibujo beneath Damián Domingo, whom we covered in part 18 of this series. Domingo established and popularized tipos del pais p
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A 19th-century burgher records the faces of his people (originally published in the 1975 edition of the Archipelago magazine)
by Santiago A. Pilar
Perhaps the most satirical of witticisms expressed about the Philippines during the Spanish times was made by a visiting French nobleman in a report to his country in 1766. « I am writing you from the other side of the globe, and may I even add from the 14th century ! » declared M. Le Gentil de la Galasiere who, steeped in the ideas of the then modern French Enlightenment, must have been intensely shocked about the medieval lifeways of Spain’s territory in Asia.
The erudite Seigneur’s caustic esprit was only one of the volley of similar pointed comments hurled at the quality of the Spanish rule in the islands, criticisms which eventually stirred up some enlightened Spanish hearts into taking steps toward a better administration. Out of these attempts at reforms aimed primarily at improving the country’s unpredictable econom
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During one of those madly delightful and delightfully mad evenings high up on Ayala Avenue…
“See, even the ladies are happy to see you!!!” Teyet declared as we walked through his “bibliothek” with its antique leatherbound books, ivory “santo” hands for wall sconces, and oil portraits of society doyennes plastered on the ceiling. Finally, we had come upon the celebrated portrait of the beautiful Filomena Asuncion de Villafranca, painted by her uncle Justiniano Asuncion y Molo, sometime from the 1850s-60s, which conventionally hung on the wall just before his bedroom door.
In a gesture of overexcitement, “Filomena Asuncion de Villafranca” jumped off the wall and crashed to the floor. Oh-my-God. Jo Panlilio and I gasped in distress.
“See, even Filomena is excited to see you!!!” Teyet declared.
Ever nonchalant, Teyet casually picked up the celebrated masterpiece, banged it on the wall before hanging it, and told