Week 6

• refers to the images and symbols used in a work of art.

  ■ It provides insight into the cultural and historical context of a work of art, as well as its symbolism and theme.

  Iconography
• participants wear morion masks to depict Roman soldiers and Syrian mercenaries from the Passion of the Christ. They are costumed penitents who parade for seven days searching for Longinus.

  Moriones
• In the Visayan Region, the Maskara festival prominently features masks, or "maskara" in the local language. These masks always bear smiling faces, leading to Bacolod being known as the "City of Smiles


  Maskara
• The tribes of Mindanao, particularly the T'bolis from Lake Sebu, South Cotabato, are renowned for this traditional cloth. T'bolis believe they can only create it if they have dreamed of them, earning them the nickname "Dream Weavers."

  T'nalak
• is a traditional textile of the Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe, a minority group in Davao provinces. It was traditionally worn as the garment for ancestral royalty.

  Inabal