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 ...

Detail from Juan Luna’s “boceto” of the “Spoliarium” —DEXTER MATILLA Detail from Juan Luna’s “boceto” of the “Spoliarium” —DEXTER MATILLA Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” is ...

Just before it was shipped to Manila, the Spoliarium was cut into three pieces, with each piece going into its own crate. These pieces were much later received by the Juan Luna Centennial Manila ...

22 and 23 at the Peninsula Manila. The centerpiece of this year’s auction is what is believe to be a boceto for Juan Luna’s Spoliarium. Salcedo Auctions director Richie Lerma recalled receiving a ...

Why did the great Filipino painter, Juan Luna, choose to paint the Spoliarium with its “bloody carcasses of slave gladiators being dragged away from the arena where they had entertained their Roman ...

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 ...

Going once, twice, and it's sold. The recently unveiled "Boceto for Spoliarium" by Juan Luna on Saturday fetched P63 million at the Rigodon Ballroom as part of the "Important Philippine Art" of "The ...

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 ...

Art lovers are conversant with the turbulent marriage of Juan Luna – concededly the greatest ... domestic life and its tragic ending emerges Spoliarium, the opera-in-concert composed by Ryan ...