SERENDIPITY is finding something you weren't looking for

SERENDIPITY is finding something you weren't looking for.
On the trail of a marble sculpture Rizal saw in Frankfurt in 1886, I was pleasantly surprised to in the Liebiegshaus Museum an image of the Santo Niño made in the 1520's by the Mechelen workshop in Flanders. It is the cousin of the Santo Niño de Cebu made in the same workshop.
The Frankfurt one never left Europe so he is pale and white, while the one in Cebu is brown and sun-burned. I wish the custodians will allow me to see th...
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Published on October 19, 2024 02:00
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