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dc.contributor.authorAllareya, Monina
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-08T03:37:08Z
dc.date.available2024-06-08T03:37:08Z
dc.date.issued1962-12-08
dc.identifier.citationAllareya, M. (1962). Luna's "Spoliarium". Philippine Herald Magazine, 28-29.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12852/3066
dc.descriptionJournal article. Article compiled at The Luna Brothers volume.en_US
dc.description.abstractMASSIVE 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 being dragged across a stone floor into the maw of darkness. Within the shadows are faces which are palled with sorrow, hopelessness and pain. Simply, the motive seems fanciful. Juan Luna painted the "Spoliarium" from a fascinated reading of Rome au Siecle d' Auguste, un Voyage d'un Gaulois at Rome "A Frenchman's Voyage to Rome During the Time of Sugustus). The traveler, Carlos Luis Dezobry, describes the large and gloomy basement of the Roman amphitheater where corpses of gladiators are stripped of armor and weapons before they are buried. Soon after a reading of the book, Luna took a trip to Rome in July 1883, as a brief sojourn from his art studies in Barcelona. While under the spell of the Roman Colosseum. He began to paint, using the ruins, as the setting for his huge 7.72 by 4.26 meters canvas. Eight months later, in March, he completed the painting for inclusion with an exhibition at the Palazzi dell' Esposizione at the Via Nazionale in Rome.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPhilippine Herald Magazineen_US
dc.subject.lcshHeroesen_US
dc.subject.lcshPhilippinesen_US
dc.subject.lcshRevolutionsen_US
dc.subject.lcshRevolution (Philippines : 1896-1898)en_US
dc.subject.lcshBiographyen_US
dc.subject.lcshPaintingen_US
dc.subject.lcshMasterpiece, Artisticen_US
dc.titleLuna's "Spoliarium"en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited public accessen_US
dc.citation.firstpage28en_US
dc.citation.lastpage29en_US
dc.citation.journaltitlePhilippine Herald Magazineen_US
local.subjectJuan Lunaen_US


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