Ambeth R. Ocampo's Blog, page 113

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK sounds like a question for the candidate for president who declined to be interviewed by Jessica...

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK sounds like a question for the candidate for president who declined to be interviewed by Jessica Soho.
Texts are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from the 25-volume Escritos de Rizal series (Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission, 1961).



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History Asleep. Portrait of Ambeth Ocampo as a Young Man by Jullie Lluch 1989. Paintings by 19th century Filipino master Felix R...

History Asleep. Portrait of Ambeth Ocampo as a Young Man by Jullie Lluch 1989. Paintings by 19th century Filipino master Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo.



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The Santo Niño de Cebu (Left) has a "cousin" in the Louvre Museum in Paris (Right), a wood image carved and painted from the sam...

The Santo Niño de Cebu (Left) has a "cousin" in the Louvre Museum in Paris (Right), a wood image carved and painted from the same mid-15th century Flemish workshop in Mechelen (Malines). Since we have no photographs of the Santo Niño de Cebu without its finery and jewelry, the Louvre image helps us imagine what the Cebu image looked like when it was presented by Magellan to the Queen of Cebu after he baptism in 1521.
My Inquirer column today is on the Santo Niño as shapeshifter, who is als...

Which do you prefer? Old or new? My students look happy because photo was taken on the last day of class. Before they received t...

Which do you prefer? Old or new? My students look happy because photo was taken on the last day of class. Before they received their Final Grades :)



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This is not some random historical photograph from my archive. My mother worked in the Philippine Travel and Tourism Burea...

This is not some random historical photograph from my archive.
My mother worked in the Philippine Travel and Tourism Bureau (forerunner of today's Department of Tourism) before she got married and had me. Aside from posing in Filipiniana attire for tourist posters and promotion, she was often asked to meet VIPs at the international airport or the pier with smiles and garlands.
She would have been 89 today.



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My Inquirer column today on a return to physical classrooms but having a BLENDED mode of both face to face and online instructio...

My Inquirer column today on a return to physical classrooms but having a BLENDED mode of both face to face and online instruction.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/148837/r...



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Raya is one impressive and progressive school. Am pleased and honoured to give a talk to them on the use of history to counter F...

Raya is one impressive and progressive school. Am pleased and honoured to give a talk to them on the use of history to counter Fake News.



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RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK.Texts are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from the 25-volu...

RIZAL QUOTE FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Texts are translated from the original Spanish or other languages, and sourced from the 25-volume Escritos de Rizal series (Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission, 1961).



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Historian's adventures. During a quick visit to the British Library in 2019, I requested the 1609 edition of Antonio de Mor...

Historian's adventures.
During a quick visit to the British Library in 2019, I requested the 1609 edition of Antonio de Morga's "Sucesos de las islas Filipinas (right). It is an extremely rare book (less than 50 known copies in the universe) made more so because Jose Rizal copied it out by hand. There was no photocopier, scanner, or smartphone in his time.
Rizal spent his time in London in the summer of 1889 copying the Morga in the daytime, enriching it at night with very long notes ...

What do you prefer? The King's [George III] Library as it was arranged in wood and glass at the British Museum pre-1997 (top) or...

What do you prefer? The King's [George III] Library as it was arranged in wood and glass at the British Museum pre-1997 (top) or the collection displayed in a gleaming tower of glass and metal in the present British Library?
My Inquirer column today looks back on the British Library in London as I knew it as a postgrad student in the early 1990s.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/148652/t...



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