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The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna.Luna, working on canvas, spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators.The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid, where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three). [1]
Juan Luna completed The Blood Compact in 1886, a year after he moved to Paris to open a studio. It was also the year after Luna became a friend of Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, another known Filipino painter. [1] In 1904, the painting won the first prize in Paris, France and at the St. Louis Exposition in the United States. [6]
El Pacto de Sangre (1886), a masterpiece painting of the Pacto de Sangre or Sandugo by Juan Luna. Blood compact (Spanish: Pacto de sangre; Tagalog: Sanduguan) was an ancient ritual in the Philippines intended to seal a friendship or treaty, or to validate an agreement.
Juan Luna in his Paris studio. Spoliarium of Juan Luna displayed at Philippine National Museum of Fine Arts. In 1883, Luna commenced work on the painting commissioned by the Ayuntamiento. By May 1884, he dispatched the expansive canvas portraying the Spoliarium to Madrid for the annual Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. Remarkably, he became ...
Paintings by Philippine artist Juan Luna (1857 — 1899) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paintings by Juan Luna . Pages in category "Paintings by Juan Luna"
Painted by Luna in 1887, the masterpiece is about the Battle of Lepanto of October 7, 1571. The painting features Don Juan of Austria (also known as Don John of Austria) in battle while at the bow of a ship. It is one of the “huge epic canvasses” painted by Luna (the others are the Spoliarium and The Blood Compact). [6] [7]
One Romanian artist found an innovative way -- using her own menstrual blood -- to create art. Timea Páll, 28, painted a large foetus over the course of nine months with solely period blood.
The Blood Compact (Spanish: El Pacto de Sangre) is a painting made as a commemoration of the pact by famous artist Juan Luna in 1886 and is permanently enshrined at the Malacañan Palace. On Luna's painting, it was his future brother-in-law and an Ilustrado , Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera , who posed as Legazpi, and national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal ...