Chances are, even those with the littlest interest in art know what the "Spoliarium" is, and maybe could identify Juan Luna as the noted painter behind the grand work. Admission to the National Museum ...

“Cleopatra,” by Juan Luna from the Collection of Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain Luna’s portrait of Governor General Ramon Blanco —PHOTOS BY SHERWIN VARDELEON The National Gallery Singapore ...

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MANILA, Philippines — When you walk into the National Museum of Fine Arts, past the metal detectors and the big wooden double doors, you enter a cavernous hall. There you behold the masterpiece for ...

Manila (CNN Philippines Life) — Carcasses of gladiators are dragged away from a Roman circus and pulled towards pitch-black darkness. There are contrasting emotions in this scene — some seem to be ...

JUAN LUNA’s Hymen, oh Hyménée. “Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.” — Dr. Jose Rizal’s toast to Luna and Hidalgo, 1884, Café ...

At some point in history, between 1883-1884, a friendship between Spanish sculptor Mariano Benlliure and Juan Luna blossomed, together with other Filipino expats in Europe such as Felix Ressureccion ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino painter Juan Luna was best-known for his "The Spoliarium," a painting which he worked on for eight months and which depicts dead and dying gladiators being stripped of ...

The “Spoliarium” boceto “provides a fascinating insight of the creative process behind an artwork that continues to stir the hearts and minds of Filipinos” Ramon “Richie” Lerma, director of Salcedo ...

Updating my travel history for the past 10 years, for future reference when applying for visas, I was surprised to realize that I had made six short trips to Singapore in the past 10 months. In all ...

The National Museum of the Philippines has urged Salcedo Auctions not to put under the hammer a bronze bust of Filipino artist Juan Luna, to which the premier auction house complied "out of goodwill." ...