Detail from Juan ... art history. Their lives and art fused in a nationalist project that made them not just artists but patriots, revered today as national heroes. Luna’s “Spoliarium ...

Ramon “Richie” Lerma, director of Salcedo Auctions, was told he was inspecting photographs of a boceto of the “Spoliarium”—Juan Luna’s most ... of the Ateneo Art Gallery, remembered ...

Historians are skeptical by nature, and doubly so in the case of the boceto or study of Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” that surfaced from ... Since historians use a different lens from art collectors and ...

MANILA, Philippines – A smaller version of the country’s largest painting and national treasure, the Spoliarium by Juan Luna, surfaced ... of the oil and canvass art piece.

MANILA, Philippines — It is 1886 and Juan Luna is at a high. Two years earlier, his large oil painting “Spoliarium” had ... “holy grail of Philippine art.” Many people considered it ...

MANILA, Philippines — Over a century since National Artist Juan Luna’s first “boceto” (study) of his acclaimed work “Spoliarium ... Artists and Filipino art masters.

Filipina sculptor Julie Lluch has recreated Juan Luna’s 1884 classic painting “Spoliarium” into a sculpture that represents the current war on drugs issue. Displayed at the Art Fair Philippines 2020, ...

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 ...

On its fifth year, Salcedo Auctions’ The Well-Appointed Life auction will be presenting selected items from its four sale categories — important Philippine art, connoisseur ... believe to be a boceto ...

AFTER ALMOST 14 minutes of back-and-forth bidding, an unnamed phone bidder won ownership of Juan Luna’s boceto for the Spoliarium at a gavel price of P63 million from its starting bid at P25 million ...