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Façade of San Joaquin Church
The façade of the Church of San Joaquin in the city of Iloilo on the island of Panay in the Philippines is as intriguing as it is compelling [Fig. 1]. While many of the colonial churches in the Philippines built across the long duration of Spanish colonialism (16th-19th century), mainly reveal ornamentation, the images of sacred figures, and the bare nature of the architectural material, this particular façade uniquely stages a narrative of a war. It is a war that did not even happen in the locality.
The scene of a war intertwined with a Catholic church is not, however, totally strange. In fact, the relationship between war and colonialism is foundational, as it inheres in the very project of colonialism. The image of Santiago Matamoros (Saint James, the Moor Slayer), a prominent icon of the Reconquista in Spain (8th century to 1492), is the dominant trope to be seen at the main gate of Fort Santiago in Intramuros, or the Walled City of the Spanish colonial rule in Manila, which was founded in 1571. The sight of Saint James trampling on the Moor reveals the militancy of the Counter-Reformation Baroque in light of Spain’s campaign to triumph over its Muslim rulers.
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Marian place of worship in Caceres, Spain
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Pelagia Mendoza y Gotianquin (1867 – 1939)
by Eloisa May P. Hernandez, Ph.D.
Pelagia Mendoza y Gotianquin was born on June 9, 1867 in Pateros, Rizal. Her parents were Venancio Mendoza and Evarista Gotianquin. She was the second child in a family of five children. Pelagia displayed an interest in art since she was a child. According to Gregorio Zaide in Great Filipinos in History: An Epic of Filipino Greatness in War and Peace, “Since early childhood, she manifested a remarkable talent for art. When she was yet a little girl she loved to sketch beautiful landscapes, to embroider exquisite designs on handkerchiefs, and model clay figurines people, animals, birds, and flowers” (340).
Pelagia is the first known woman sculptor in the Philippines. She studied modeling under D. Manuel Flores (Zaragoza 374). She was the first female student to be accepted at the Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura. Mendoza was twenty-two years old when Lorenzo Rocha, director of the Escuela, accepted her. According to Santiago, “Far from being a male chauvinist, he (Rocha) admitted and personally supervised the first female student at the academy, Pelagia Mendoza in 1889. (This made the academy the only coeducational institution in the Philippines during the Spanis