Art in History (Every Tuesday)GOD IS IN THE DETAILS. I have committed to a lecture in the National Museum on "Carlos V. Franc...

Art in History (Every Tuesday)
GOD IS IN THE DETAILS.

I have committed to a lecture in the National Museum on "Carlos V. Francisco: The Artist as Historian" following many hours studying the details in his visual history of Manila from pre-Spanish times to 1964, during the term of Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas who commissioned the mural.
Often overlooked in the proud and defiant depiction of Raja Soliman [Left]are two details with water plants: NILA, behind his legs, that gave the city i...