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Artes de las Filipinas New Website

Artes de las Filipinas New Website

February 2009 – Two months short of its fourth anniversary, Artesdelasfilipinas.com is proud to launch its new layout. The site has been reogranized for better article categorization. The new site aims to offer new features in the coming weeks such as a search engine and options to print, email or bookmark an article. Artes de las Filipinas renews its partnership with EACOMM Corporation for providing us its award-winning DO-CMS Content Management System for the new site.

The site has been designed not to break any existing links to previous articles. However, if something has been overlooked and you encountered a broken link ,please notify us at info@artesdelasfilipinas.com so we may act on it right away. 

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The San Miguel Arcangel Parish Chuch Argao, Cebu
The San Miguel Arcangel Parish Church Argao, Cebu by The Artes de las Filipinas Research Team June 2016--The construction of this beautiful Baroque Rococo church was begun in 1734, the year after the parish...
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Gallery Owner: Vic Salta of Artistree Gallery
Gallery Owner: Vic Salta of Artistree Gallery
Vic Salta is a legendary art collector in the seventies who opened Artistree gallery in Shangri la Plaza to make first-rate works of art available to learned collectors. He chose not to deal with ordinary piece...
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The Art and Life of Baidy Rico Mendoza
The Art and Life of Baidy Rico Mendoza
She is truly mystical. Of herself she declares, I am as old as the hills and as young as the clouds, and somebody said, as the mist. Baidy Rico Mendoza fashions her clay people out of disparate thingsit...
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P183 Dead: Street Artist Known As 'Russian Banksy' Dies At 29 Years Old
P183 Dead: Street Artist Known As 'Russian Banksy' Dies At 29 Years Old
MOSCOW -- Pasha P183, a prominent Russian graffiti artist who hid his identity and has been compared to Britain's Banksy, has died. He was 29. The Teatralnoye Delo theatrical production company, which r...
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Qualifying for the Guinness World Record
Qualifying for the Guinness World Record
Have you heard of the Guinness World Records? The Philippines had been included in the Guinness Book of Records as the Biggest Pair of Shoes the city of Marikina ever had been made out of leather and these...
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The Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs
The Angono-Binangonan Petroglyphs
July-August 2013--A geological study in Tres Hermanas in Antipolo was undertaken by the National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines. In this site, the Plio-Pliestocene deposit was identified as Laguna Format...
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Paete's Taka
Paete's Taka
Beautiful flowers of scarlet red adorn her from head to toe. Big, round, expressive dark eyes govern her proud head and a red stiff tail enhances her powerful back. A small horse; my first taka toy I rec...
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Woman Buys Renoir for $7
Woman Buys Renoir for $7
September 2012-- A Missing Renoir has turned up in a fleamarket in America, where a woman bought it unaware of its value, for $7 (€5.45).  The lucky buyer said she was persuaded to make the purchase by the fact the pa...
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Farewell (Or Underground With) Material Possessions
Farewell (Or Underground With) Material Possessions
MANILA, Philipines -- Possessors ordinarily ignore the prayerful’s admonition of detachment from material possessions.  With the National Cultural Heritage Act (R.A. No. 10066, signed into Law in March 2010),...
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Rody Herrera's Nationalistic Legacy
Rody Herrera's Nationalistic Legacy
July 2014--Influenced by Fernando Amorsolo’s use of impressionistic brushstrokes and Botong Francisco’s carefully modelled form, color and movement, Rody Herrera’s historical sensibilities commenced when...
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