Exploring 500 Years of Philippine History by Botong Francisco | In Focus S03E01

This 12-panel study in the Ayala Museum Collection is one of the few remaining complete documentations of the design of National Artist Carlos "Botong" Francisco's earliest and largest major historical mural, 500 years of Philippine history. The massive mural, 88 meters long and almost two and half meters high, was commissioned as one of the attractions at the 1953 International Fair in Manila.
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It's not the portrait of Theodore Roosevelt but of Howard Taft that's in the panel. Taft was the first American civil governor general delegated by Teddy Roosevelt.