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Born in the town of Badoc, Ilocos

Norte in the northern Philippines, JuanLuna was the third among the sevenchildren of Don Joaquin Luna de SanPedro y Posadas and Doa Laureana

Novicio y Ancheta.

In 1861, the Luna family moved

to Manila and he went to AteneoMunicipal de Manila where he obtainedhis Bachelor of Arts degree.


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Luna enrolled at Escuela Nautica deManila (now Philippine Merchant Marine

Academy). He took drawing lessons under theillustrious painting teacher LorenzoGuerreroof Ermita, Manila.

He also enrolled in the Academy of FineArts(Academia de Dibujo y Pintura) in Manilawhere he was influenced and taught how todraw by the Spanish artist Agustin Saez.Unfortunately, Luna's vigorous brush strokesdispleased his teacher and Luna wasdischarged from the Academy. studies.


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Juan entered the Escuela de

Bellas Artes de San Fernandouela,where he befriended the painterDon Alejo Vera. Luna was

discontented with the style ofteaching in school and decided thatit would be much better to work

with Vera.


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O It was in 1878 when his artistic talents

was established with the opening of thefirst art exposition in Madrid whichwas called the Exposicion Nacional deBellas Artes (National Demonstrationof Beautiful Arts). From then on, Lunabecame engrossed in painting andproduced a collection of paintings that

he exhibited in the 1881 Exposition.


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His La Muerte de Cleopatra (The

Death of Cleopatra)won him a silver medaland came in second place. Luna's growingreputation as an artist led toapensionado (pension) scholarship at 600

pesos annually through the Ayuntamiento ofManila.

The condition was that he was obligedto develop a painting which captured theessence of Philippine history which wouldthen become the Ayuntamiento's property.


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In 1883 Luna started the painting

demanded of him by the Ayuntamiento.In May 1884, he shipped the largecanvas of the Spoliarium to Madrid forthe year's Exposicin Nacional de BellasArtes. He was the first recipient of thethree gold medals awarded in theexhibition and Luna gained recognition

among the connoisseurs and artcriticspresent.


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OOn June 25, 1884, Filipino and

Spanish nobles organized an eventcelebrating Luna's win in theexhibition. That evening, Rizal

prepared a speech for his friend,addressing the two significantthings of his art work, whichincluded the glorification of geniusand the grandeur of his artisticskills.


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Luna developed a friendly

relationship with the King ofSpainand was later commissioned bythe Spanish Senate to paint a large

canvas which was called the La Batallade Lepanto (The Battle of Lepanto).He moved to Paris in 1885 where heopened his own studio and befriendedHidalgo.


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O A year after, he finished the

piece El Pacto de Sangre(The BloodCompact) in accordance with theagreement he had with the

Ayuntamiento of Manila. Depicted inthis piece was the blood compactceremony between the DatuSikatuna , one of the lords in Bohol

island, and the Spanish conquistadorMiguel Lpez de Legazpi.


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It is now displayed in

the Malacaan Palace. He also senttwo other paintings in addition to theone required; the second canvas sentto Manila was a portrait of Lpez deLegazpi reconstructed by Luna fromhis recollection of a similar portraithe saw in the hall of theCabildo, and

the third was of Governor-generalRamn Blanco y Erenas.


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In 1887, Luna once againtraveled back to Spain to enterin that year's Exposition two of

his pieces, theLa Batalla de

Lepanto and Rendicin deGranada (Surrender of

Granada),


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O He celebrated his triumph with his

friends in Madrid with GracianoLpez-Jaenadelivered Luna acongratulatory speech. Luna's

paintings are generally described asbeing vigorous and dramatic. With itselements of Romanticism, his style

shows the influence

of Delacroix, Rembrandt,and Daumier.


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On December 8, 1886, Luna

married Maria de la Paz Pardo deTavera, a sister of his friend Felixand Trinidad Pardo de Tavera. The

couple traveled to Veniceand Romeand settled in Paris. They had oneson, whom they named Andrs, and

a daughter nicknamed Bibi who diedin infancy. Luna was fond ofpainting his wife.


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OHowever, the jealous Luna

frequently accused Paz of having anaffair with a certain MonsieurDussaq. Finally in a fit of jealousy,

he killed his wife and mother-in-lawand wounded his brother-in-law,Felix, on September 23, 1892. Hewas arrested and murder chargeswere filed against him.


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Luna was acquitted ofcharges on February 8, 1893,on grounds of temporary

insanity; the "unwritten law" atthe time forgave men forkilling unfaithful wives.


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In 1891 Luna moved back to thePhilippines and traveled to Japan in 1896,

returning during the Philippine Revolution ofthe Cry of Balintawak. Unfortunately, onSeptember 16, 1896, he and hisbrother Antonio Lunawere arrested by Spanish

authorities for being involved withthe Katipunanrebel army.

Despite his imprisonment, Luna was stillable to produce a work of art which he gave to

a visiting priest. He was pardoned by theSpanish courts on May 27, 1897 and wasreleased from prison and he traveled back toSpain.


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In 1898, he was appointed by the

executive board of the Philippinerevolutionary government as a member ofthe Paris delegation which was working forthe diplomatic recognition of

the Repblica Filipina (Philippine Republic).In 1899, upon the signing of the Treaty ofParis (1898), Luna was named a member ofthe delegation to Washington, D.C. topress for the recognition of the Philippinegovernment.
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He traveled back to the Philippines in

December 1899 upon hearing of themurder of his brother Antonio bythe Kawit Battalion in Cabanatuan. OnDecember 7, 1899, Luna suffered a heart

attack and died there. His remains wereburied in Hong Kong and in 1920 wereexhumed and kept in Andrs Luna's house,to be later transferred to a niche at theCrypt of the San Agustin Church in thePhilippines.


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OFive years later, Juan would bereinstated as a world renownedartist and Peuple et Rois, his lastmajor work, was acclaimed the

best entry to the Saint LouisWorld's Fairin the United States.Unfortunately some of his

paintings were destroyed by firein World War II.


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La Muerte de Cleopatra(The Death o f

Cleopatra)
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