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Pelagia Mendoza y Gotianquin ( &#; )
by Eloisa May P. Hernandez, Ph.D.
Pelagia Mendoza y Gotianquin was born on June 9, in Pateros, Rizal. Her parents were Venancio Mendoza and Evarista Gotianquin. She was the second child in a family of five children. Pelagia displayed an interest in art since she was a child. According to Gregorio Zaide in Great Filipinos in History: An Epic of Filipino Greatness in War and Peace, “Since early childhood, she manifested a remarkable talent for art. When she was yet a little girl she loved to sketch beautiful landscapes, to embroider exquisite designs on handkerchiefs, and model clay figurines people, animals, birds, and flowers” ().
Pelagia is the first known woman sculptor in the Philippines. She studied modeling under D. Manuel Flores (Zaragoza ). She was the first female student to be accepted at the Escuela de Dibujo y Pintura. Mendoza was twenty-two years old when Lorenzo Rocha, director of the Escuela, a