Guillermo Tolentino: National Disciple of Art: Difference between revisions

A jury tasked with choosing the best design to honor the Katipunan Supremo convened on August 9, 1930. Pseudonyms were used when entering the designs. The winning entry was submitted by Tolentino using the pseudonym Batang Elias. After winning the design contest, he was commissioned to install the Bonifacio Monument. In 1932, he finished the monument's figures. He then sent the figures to be cast in bronze in Italy. He ended the Bonifacio Monument in 1933.

Approximately concurrently with his work on the Bonifacio Monument, Tolentino completed the Oblation. He combined the bulky build of his assistant and sculptor Anastacio Caedo with the stature and dimensions of Caedo's brother-in-law, Virgilio Raymundo, to create the Oblation.

October 25, 1935: The U.P. The Alumni Association intended to build an arch to remember the Commonwealth of the Philippines' founding. They asked Tolentino to get the maquette and design ready.

The time it took Tolentino to create a maquette was short. The National Assembly and President Quezon gave their approval to the design. The monument was estimated to have cost around Php 500,000. Despite a lack of funding, Mrs. Aurora Quezon placed the first trowel full of cement on the monument's foundation on November 15, 1938. The Commonwealth Triumphal Arch was intended to be erected in front of the Legislative Building at the intersection of Taft Avenue and Padre Burgos. Sadly, the war intervened and the triumphal arch was never constructed.