Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Sr. Born in Cebu City, Philippines; trained at the University of the Philippines in Manila. From the 1950s taught printmaking and ran a contemporary art gallery in Manila. Became known as the ‘Father of Philippine Printmaking’.
Who is the father of Filipino printers?
Tomas Pinpin is regarded as the first Filipino printer and Patriarch of Filipino Printers. He was born in Abucay, Bataan but there are no records about his birth as the records of the town were destroyed by the Dutch in 1646.
When was the first printing press in the Philippines?
The first printing press in the Philippines was established by the Dominican friars in Manila in the year 1953. That was 47 years before the appearance of the first printing press in the United States.
Who is the Prince of the Philippine literature?
Tomás Pinpin was a printer, writer and publisher from Abucay, a municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines, who was the first Philippine printer and is sometimes referred as the “Prince of the Filipino Printers.”
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What Teodoro Agoncillo said about history?
I remember Agoncillo when I was asked to comment on the present or the future with the past because he said: « History is about the past, not the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the same events.