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España y Filipinas (“Spain and the Philippines") is a series of oil on wood paintings [1] [2] by Filipino painter, Ilustrado, and revolutionary activist, Juan Luna. It is an allegorical depiction [ 3 ] of two women together, one a representation of Spain and the other of the Philippines . [ 4 ]
España y Filipinas by Juan Luna. Spain and the Philippines share a common history in the fact that the Philippines was part of the Spanish Empire for three hundred years and was the sole Spanish colony in Asia. Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first encountered the Philippines and named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. [3]
In 1543, Ruy López de Villalobos arrived at the islands of Leyte and Samar and named them Las Islas Filipinas in honor of Philip II of Spain, at the time Prince of Asturias. [2] Philip became King of Spain on January 16, 1556, when his father, Charles I of Spain (who also reigned as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor), abdicated the Spanish throne.
right España y Filipinas, 1886 oil on canvas painting by Juan Luna. Philippine–Spanish Friendship Day (Spanish: Día de la Amistad Hispano-Filipina, Filipino: Araw ng Pagkakaibigang Pilipino-Espanyol or Araw ng Pagkakaibigan ng mga Pilipino at Espanyol) celebrates the strong links between the Republic of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain every June 30.
Reception of the Manila galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, Boxer Codex (c. 1590). With the Portuguese guarding access to the Indian Ocean around the Cape, a monopoly supported by papal bulls and the Treaty of Tordesillas, Spanish contact with the Far East waited until the success of the 1519–1522 Magellan–Elcano expedition that found a Southwest Passage around South America ...
A. ^ Carta de Juan Bautista Román, factor y veedor de la Real Hacienda de Filipinas, al virrey de Nueva España dando cuenta de la expedición del capitán Juan Pablo de Carrión a Cagayán para expulsar a los japoneses que estaban allí poblados. Fue con una pequeña armada, por el camino peleó con un corsario chino al que rindió, y al ...
Las Damas Romanas is one of the early works of Luna as a painter that resurfaced in the past quarter of a century after being presumed to be either lost or missing. [5] [6] Before its reappearance in Paris many years before 2008, it had been documented only as a title and as a listed work of Luna in the 1957 biography of Luna written by Carlos E. Da Silva.
The Spanish colonial period in the Philippines — colonial rule of the Las Islas Filipinas (Philippines), a part of the Spanish East Indies territories, which arose from explorations beginning in 1521.