Jose Maceda's monumental piece Pagsamba (1968) sets the Tagalog text of the Mass in a ritualistic atmosphere. The work requires more than 200 singers and instrumentalists playing Philippine gongs and bamboo instruments.
was director of the National Library, founding curator of the Ayala Museum, and fellow of the Royal Geographic Society of the United Kingdom.
Was a prominent historian and writer.
Among his works are The Great Malayan (1940), a prizewinning biography of Jose Rizal; Lives of the Philippine Presidents (1952); and The Young Aguinaldo (1969); and Filipinos at War (1981).
He studied in the University of the Philippines, Manila as a Ramon Roces Publication Scholar in 1947.
The following year he transferred to the University of Santo Tomas, he studied fine arts with a major in painting.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951.
Professions: artist, painter, sculptor.
Three of his major mixed media works are I'm Sorry Jesus, I Can't Attend Christmas This Year (1965), and his Homage to Dodjie Laurel (1969: Ateneo Art Gallery collection), and A Flying Contraption for Mr. Icarus (1984: Lopez Museum).