his artworks show that not only did he have a brilliant intellect but he was also a gifted artist.


Leaves from Rizal's travel notes and sketches through Europe


Drawings by Rizal


wood carving


sculpture Rizal made when he was still a student called the "The Power of Science over Death"


Rizal's models when an exile at Dapitan


oil painting of his sister by Rizal

this is great! hindi ko akalain na artist pala siya. he's not only a bayani but he's also a great artist.

mabuhay si jose rizal!

jose rizal!!! soo talented, my #1 hero. i luv his books, especially his noli me tangere.

ako naman, yung florante at laura.

maganda rin yun!!!(florante at laura)!!! ako minsan while i was day dreaming in class, i thought of making a movie about Noli Me Tangere. i thought that it would be a great script for a movie. haha, i actually planned and had actual actors while organizing and watching this movie in my head. i dunno, i guess i was just being weird that day. i had enrique iglesias, ricky martin, cesar montano, piolo pascual, jericho rosales, aubrey miles, Iza Calzado, andrea del rosario, tanya garcia and lucy torres acting in this movie. it looks good while watching it. very epic, tragic and dramatic!!! it was a classic.

damn i should hve had a recorder to record that movie!!! it was just soo good!!! i wish i could show it to u guys, too bad i cant find it in my brain library. ahahahahahaha

the original cover of noli me tangere, the one rizal designed himself.

slightly off topic but this was the actual image of the historic moment when rizal was executed

very artistic indeed. now is that photo of his execution, an actual photo or is it just a drawing photographed during that era??

im not quite sure...it could pass for a photo but then agen it mite juz be a drawing. either ways its still good.

u forgot he's a GREAT babaero

mabuhay si jose rizal!

no wonder many pinoys are following his footsteps

^yup, he has girls all over the globe

Diba there is a tsismis that Adolf Hilter is the son of Jose Rizal because he lived in Germany for a while.

^tsismis lng un, d totoo un

Jose Rizal...... Respect.

I might name my kid Rizal someday. A good name.

^Jose Rizal also speak Bahasa Melayu

^Wow! I didn't know that. Though we did learn about him and Filipino early independence movement at school.
Many Malays in Malaysia are called Rizal, it's a proper pan-Malay name.

^they teach Filipino history in malaysia?

they teach filipino history everywhere in southeast asia. i dunno why, maybe because our history is just sooo damn interesting. we have like sooo many bayanis in our filipino history, which makes it more interesting. in my opinion, filipino history tops all history in the world. unlike here in canada where history class is just sooo damn plain and boooring, cuz nothing really happened in here.

i read somewhere that rizal actually tried to set up a colony in malaysia but i'm not sure where...maybe you might know somethingg about this?

Just bits of it. Rizal came under theme of the rise of nationalism in southeast Asia and early indepedence movements.

I'm afraid I don't, Tak.

who's Malaysia's National Hero?

Rizal did not write Florante at Laura, unless you were not implying that.

I don't think we have any one particular hero. But for me it'd be Onn Jaafar. Don't think he was as artistically inclined as Jose Rizal though.

Let's get back to him, shall we?

is it true Rizal also have Negrito blood?

Researchers revealed that the Mercado-Rizal family had also traces of Japanese, Spanish, Malay and Even Negrito blood aside from Chinese.

http://knightsofrizal.de/familiee.html

^how come filipino is not listed & other nationalties are?