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A street in Quiapo, Manila, was named after the late Filipino painter and patriot Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo. Hidalgo, who was born in Binondo, Manila, on Feb. 21, 1855, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid through a scholarship given by the city government of Manila in 1879.  Some of his works include the “Oedipus and Antigone,” “The Siesta” and “Christian Virgins Exposed to the Mob,” which won a silver medal at the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts. He died on March 13, 1913.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research