#intramuros

Muy Gordo Letras y Figuras familyfie

My wife and daughter posing with the 2002 Letras y Figuras of the 2003 Rizal's Bagumbayan Light and Sound Museum at the 1990s reconstructed 1725 Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesús, in the Intramuros District of Manila

The Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesús (now known as the Religious of the Virgin Mary) was founded in 1684, as the first Filipino congregation of religious women by Mother Ignacia del Espíritu Santo luco (1663-1748), a Chinese mestiza from Binondo. The structure of the old Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus building was built in 1725; however it was completed destroyed during the World War II 1945 Battle of Manila. The DOT (Department of Tourism) began the reconstruction of a replica of the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesús began in the late 1990s, and in 2002, the DOT hired the production team of Calbayognon film director Dir. Chito Sarmiento Roño (born 1954).

Roño’s production team worked on the animatronic “Rizal's Bagumbayan Light and Sound Museum”, which opened in 2003, which included the Quezonian artist José Dionas Funtilar Roces (born 1975). At the lobby of the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesús, Roño’s team also created relief sculptures of the Letras y Figuras style, spelling the word “INTRAMUROS”

The Letras y Figuras is a style of painting developed and popularized by the Manileño artist José Honorato Lozano (1815-1885); where names are spelled with letters that are comprised of human, animal, plant and scenic figures, all in the same perspective to not just write the name of the commissioner of the artwork but to showcase the wealth and properties (or place where he lived).