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Jose Honorato Lozano

Jose Honorato Lozano (1815/1821 - 1885) was active/lived in Philippines.  Jose Lozano is known for Painting.

José Honorato Lozano (1815 or 1821-1885) was a Filipino painter born in Manila.  He is best known as the pioneering practitioner of the art form known as Letras y figuras, in which the letters of a patron's name is composed primarily by contoured arrangements of human figures surrounded by vignettes of scenes in Manila - an art form that may have derived loosely from illuminated manuscripts.  Santiago Pilar, an authority on 19th-century paintings, described Lozano's works as "some of the most quaint and endlessly fascinating relics of Filipino culture in Spanish times".

Lozano was the son of a lighthouse keeper at Manila Bay.  He grew up in Sampaloc, Manila outside the walled city of Intramuros.  A local commentator, Rafael Diaz Arenas, remarked as early as 1850 that Lozano was "a watercolourist without rival".  Lozano also painted in the conventional costumbrista tradition as a means of supplying the demand for souvenirs of Manila to forei   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1247 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Jose Honorato Lozano

José Honorato Lozano (1815 or 1821-1885) was a Filipino painter born in Manila.  He is best known as the pioneering practitioner of the art form known as Letras y figuras, in which the letters of a patron's name is composed primarily by contoured arrangements of human figures surrounded by vignettes of scenes in Manila - an art form that may have derived loosely from illuminated manuscripts.  Santiago Pilar, an authority on 19th-century paintings, described Lozano's works as "some of the most quaint and endlessly fascinating relics of Filipino culture in Spanish times".

Lozano was the son of a lighthouse keeper at Manila Bay.  He grew up in Sampaloc, Manila outside the walled city of Intramuros.  A local co  ...  Displaying 750 of 1247 characters.

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