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Juan Luna - painter and patriot
(Philippine Journal of Education, 1952-10-01)
HAVE you ever seen the paintings called the Blood Compact and Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, which now hang in historic Malacañang Palace? These are two of Juan Luna’s best known works. The former canvas, painted in Paris, ...
Andres Bonifacio and the outbreak of the Katipunan Revolt
(Philippine Journal of Education, 1952-10)
The Philippine Revolution was an event of great importance and significance in our history. It represented the united effort, will and purpose of the Filipino people to secure for themselves and their posterity the blessings ...
The tragic death of Antonio Luna
(Philippine Free Press, 1962-06-02)
It was June in Paris of 1899 when Juan Luna received news of the assassination of his brother, General Antonio Luna, in Cabanatuan. The news was both tragic and shocking: tragic, since it concerned the untimely death of a ...
Juan Luna and the "Spoliarium"
(In the Grade School, 1959-10)
During the early part of 1883 in Rome, an ambitious Ilokano student, fired by the enthusiasm to make a name for himself and his country, met his dream which was later to place the small obscure town of Badoc, llocos Norte, ...
Quezon and the bones of Bonifacio
(Sunday Times Magazine, 1962-10-21)
In 1934, after a hectic publicity campaign in America, Manuel Luis Quezon-then head of the Philippine Senate succeeded in having the Tydings-McDuffe Law enacted by the American Congress.
Returning to the islands Quezon ...
Luna's "Spoliarium"
(Philippine Herald Magazine, 1962-12-08)
MASSIVE and direct, the "Spoliarium" by Juan Luna goads the viewer into asking: Why did he paint such a terrible scene? Depressing to the point of melancholy, brutal to repulsion, the painting is dominated by two corpses ...
"Heneral Goyo" and the Katipunan
(Philippine Free Press, 1961-11-25)
LITTLE is known of General Gregorio del Pilar save for his valiant stand with a small force in Tirad Pass against an American platoon of the 33rd Infantry under the command of Major P.C. March. No history of the Revolution ...
The young man as a revolutionary
(This Week, 1956-12-09)
LATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, when the Philippines was filled with the heady libertarian ideals and principles of the propaganda movement generated by the ilustrados in the homeland and in the Peninsula, a young man from ...
Del Pilar-The Filipino Leonidas
(Philippine Free Press, 1960-12-03)
A Romantic figure in Philippine history is the 24-years old general who magnificently took part in the Battle of Tirad Pass on December 2, 1899, when 60 ill-equipped Filipinos engaged 300 better-armed American sharpshooters ...
Gregorio H. Del Pilar - The boy
(Philippine Free Press, 1954-11-13)
Who would ever think that one of the bravest generals of our revolutions , the man who led 60 men to fight against 300 American sharpshooters in the "Battle of the Clouds," learned his marskmanship by practising on a sumpit ...