Dr Jose P Rizal: Man for All Seasons

Dedicated to the Philippines' National Hero, whose martyrdom on December 30, 1896 ignited the Philippine Revolution against Spain. 
Dr Abe V Rotor

NOTE: Rizal is not only a foremost nationalist, but a naturalist as well.  He probed his being an ecologist, a termed coined only in recent times, when he was exiled in Dapitan, an extreme rural place near Ozamis today. Here he founded a village school for children, introduced new methods of farming, planted trees, discovered new organisms, four of them were named in his honor.   

Here are sketches and portraits of Rizal discovered from very old files.

Artist's interpretation on Rizal on his way to execution at

Bagumbayan. Note lively gait and stride, and apparently jovial
conversation with the escorting military officer. It was reported
by an attending doctor that Rizal's pulse rate was normal even
as he faced the firing squad.

Artist Cabrera's study: head profile of Rizal

Rizal: boy and man

Rizal as a student in Europe.

Most popular portrait, in official documents and books.

Rizal, had he reached 90

Acknowledgment: Mr. Philip Cabrera, son of the artist; and National Historical Institute.