Virginia Ty-Navarro
Virginia Ty-Navarro (5 July 1922 – 28 January 1996) was a Filipina sculptor and painter, best known nationwide for her 1989 sculpture "Statue of Our Lady Queen of Peace", which she completed in sixteen months on a ₱12 million budget. The sculpture is alternatively called "Our Lady of EDSA Shrine" and is located atop the church of the same name in Ortigas. Ty-Navarro was born on 5 July 1922.
Virginia Ty-Navarro
- Died
- 1996
- Nationality
- Philippines
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Education
- University of Santo Tomas
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Virginia Ty-Navarro (5 July 1922 – 28 January 1996) was a Filipina sculptor and painter, best known nationwide for her 1989 sculpture "Statue of Our Lady Queen of Peace", which she completed in sixteen months on a ₱12 million budget. The sculpture is alternatively called "Our Lady of EDSA Shrine" and is located atop the church of the same name in Ortigas. Ty-Navarro was born on 5 July 1922.
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In her youth, she began with tutoring from a Chinese artist and later a German nun as she was at St. She then took a course in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas where she studied under National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco and National Artist Victorio C. Edades, during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. She later taught at her alma mater of the University of Santo Tomas and the former College of the Holy Spirit. She worked primarily with metals, such as bronze. And followed a modernist style in her art, particularly the technique of "incision painting". Some of her works are currently displayed in Manila at the National Museum of Fine Arts. Ty-Navarro was married to National Artist Jerry Navarro Elizalde. She died from Alzheimer's disease in Manila on 28 January 1996, at the age of 71.
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- 1.Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University. Southeast Asia over three generations : essays presented to Benedict R. O'G. Anderson. 285. 2003. 0877277354.
- 2.Birth Anniversary of Virginia Ty-Navarro (July 5, 1922 – January 28, 1996). National Museum of the Philippines. 2021.
- 3.University of the Philippines. University Center for Women's Studies. Review of Women's Studies, Volumes 10-11. 2000.
- 4.Reyes, Cid. J. Elizalde Navarro. National Museum of the Philippines. 78. 2008. 9789715670166.
- 5.Guillermo, Alice. Sculpture in the Philippines: From Anito to Assemblage and Other Essays. Metropolitan Museum of Manila. 33. 1991.
- 6.Benesa, Leonidas V. Art Philippines. Crucible Workshop. 332. 1992. 9719128801.
- 7.National Commission for Culture and the Arts. The American and Contemporary Traditions in Philippine Visual Arts. 15 April 2015.
- 8.National Museum of the Philippines. The National Art Gallery, National Museum of the Philippines.
- 9.Virginia Ty-Navarro. askART.
- 10.Nuyda, Doris G. After Edsa II, it's time to pay tribute to Edsa Virgin sculptress. Sunday Lifestyle. H2. 25 February 2001.
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