Spanish Colonial:

• Lowland Christian Art:                                                          

  Architecture

  Sculpting Engraving

  Music

  Literature

  Theater

  Visual Art
• Architecture

  1.  Plaza Complex

  2.  Cruciform Churches

  3. Baroque Style
• SCULPTING Engraving

  1. Santos

  2. Retablo
• Sculpting ENGRAVING

  1. Via Crucis

  2. Trompe l'oeil

  3. Relleves

  4. Plateria
• Music

  1. Western Musical Instruments

  2. Catholic Lithurgical Music3. Pasyon or Pabasa4. Awit and Corrido

  5. Balitao

  5. Kundiman
• 1. Plaza Complex

  designed as the town center and consisted of the municipio or local government office and church
• Cruciform Churches

  Following the shape of the Latin cross churches were built
• Baroque Style

  Characterized by grandeur, drama, elaborate details that purposely appealed to the emotions
• ARCHITECTURE (Seen in)

  San Agustin Church in Manila,         

  Morong Church in Rizal,          

  Paoay Church in Ilocos Norte          

  Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Church in Miag-ao Ilo-Ilo
• -         Colonial Baroque or Philippine or Tropical Baroque - Fusion of both native and European elements.
• -         To suit the native's sensibilities local intervention was made. The facade of  Miag-ao Church features St. Christopher surrounded by reliefs or relleves having tropical motifs life palm fronds and papaya trees.
• -         The use of adobe, limestone or brick and the construction of thick buttresses or wing-like projections reinforce the church structure to make it more resistant to Earth quakes.
• • Santos

  From Western model to Chinese features and techniques with Greek and Roman classical influence.Santos - Greek and Roman classical influence is seen in the proportion and formality of expression of a santo and baroque style in the expressive and emotional characteristics of the santo.
• Retablo - Integrates architecture and sculpture and is often embellisehed with rosettes, scrolls, pediments and solomonic columns which may be gilded or polychromed
• 1. Via Crucis

  series of 14 paintings or relief structures depicting Christ's crucifixion resurrection
• Trompe l'oeil

  a French word meaning “fooling the eye” it refers to painting that give a heightened illusion of three- dimensionality
• Relleves

  Carved figurative protusions                       
• Plateria

  organic designs of hammered silver