One of the best-known paintings in the country, Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” brought historical triumph not just to Luna but also to the Philippines in 1884, when it bested Spanish artists and ...

Arecent visit to Spain found me once more “chasing” after Philippine artwork and objects in cities near Madrid, where I was ...

Ramon “Richie” Lerma, director of Salcedo Auctions, was told he was inspecting photographs of a boceto of the “Spoliarium”—Juan Luna’s most celebrated, Skip to content OCTOBER 27, 2022 ...

Today we remember Juan Luna not just for the "Spoliarium," but also other masterworks such as the "Blood Compact" (and one of my favorites, the enigmatic green-gowned woman of "Despues del Baile").

As Mr. Lerma studied the photos, an interesting detail caught his attention — the signature of Juan Luna — on the lower right hand corner of the canvas. His curiosity led to further investigation of ...

Premium Beep cards featuring Juan Luna’s Spoliarium have been sold out, the National Museum Employees' Multi-Purpose Cooperative has said. In a statement on Thursday, the cooperative said that the ...

Historians are skeptical by nature, and doubly so in the case of the boceto or study of Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” that surfaced from a private collection in Spain, and is up for auction in Manila next ...

Juan Luna y Novicio, “Spoliarium” (1884), oil on canvas, 13.8 x 25.18 feet, collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, Manila (photo by Marco Collado via wikimedia.org) ...