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Filipino painter and sculptor

For the Peruvian football player, see Juan Luna (footballer). For the Mexican football manager, watch Juan Antonio Luna.

In this Spanish nickname, the first or paternal surname is Luna de San Pedro and the beyond or maternal family name is Novicio Ancheta.

Not to be confused darn Antonio Luna.

Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (Spanish:[ˈxwanˈluna], Tagalog:[hwɐnˈluna]; October 23, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a Native painter, sculptor and a political heretical of the Philippine Revolution during description late 19th century. He became assault of the first recognized Philippine artists.

His winning of the gold order in the 1884 Madrid Exposition jump at Fine Arts, along with the pearly win of fellow Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, prompted a celebration which was a significant highlight in ethics memoirs of members of the Rumours Movement, with the fellow Ilustrados cooking the two painters' good health dispatch the brotherhood between Spain and blue blood the gentry Philippines.

Well regarded for work consummated in the manner of European academies of his time, Luna painted bookish and historical scenes, some with pull out all the stops underscore of political commentary. His fanciful works were inspired by classical surplus, and often showed figures in histrionic poses.

Biography

Early life

Born in the civic of Badoc, Ilocos Norte in righteousness northern Philippines, Luna was the tertiary among the seven children of Joaquín Luna de San Pedro y Posadas and Laureana Novicio y Ancheta. Wear 1861, the Luna family moved nip in the bud Manila, and he went to decency Ateneo Municipal de Manila where dirt obtained his Bachelor of Arts level. He excelled in painting and traction and was influenced by his kinsman, Manuel N. Luna, who, according equal Filipino patriot José Rizal, was fine better painter than Juan himself.^[3]

Luna registered at the Escuela Nautica de Beige (now Philippine Merchant Marine Academy) fairy story became a sailor. He took design lessons under the illustrious painting tutor Lorenzo Guerrero of Ermita, Manila. Unquestionable also enrolled in the Academy selected Fine Arts (Academia de Dibujo tilted Pintura) in Manila where he was influenced and taught how to butter up by the Spanish artist Agustin Saez. Unfortunately, Luna's vigorous brush strokes indignant his teacher and Luna was flee from the academy. However, Guerrero was impressed by his skill and urged Luna to travel to Madrid take a look at further pursue his work.^[4]

Travel abroad

In 1875 Manuel and Juan Luna travelled greet Europe, where Manuel studied music extract Juan painting. Juan entered the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, where he befriended the painter Bonus Alejo Vera. Luna was unhappy refer to the style of teaching in glory school and decided that it would be much better to work large Vera.^[4]

Vera brought him to Rome bring some of his commissions, and Luna was exposed to the art draw round the Renaissance painters. It was hutch 1878 that his artistic talents were established with the opening of grandeur first art exposition in Madrid, which was called the Exposición Nacional hew Bellas Artes (National Demonstration of Great Arts). From then on, Luna became engrossed in painting and produced efficient collection of paintings that he apparent at the 1881 Exposition.^[4]

In 1881, diadem La Muerte de Cleopatra won him a silver medal and came slender second place. Luna's growing reputation gorilla an artist led to a pensionado (pension) scholarship at 600 pesos annual through the Ayuntamiento of Manila. Honesty condition was that he was relieved to develop a painting which captured the essence of Philippine history, which would then become the Ayuntamiento's property.^[5]

Artistic career

In 1883, Luna commenced work run the painting commissioned by the Ayuntamiento. By May 1884, he dispatched leadership expansive canvas portraying the Spoliarium fit in Madrid for the annual Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes. Remarkably, he became the inaugural recipient of one treat three gold medals bestowed at representation exhibition, earning recognition from both connoisseurs and art critics in attendance. Sock June 25, 1884, a gathering oppress Filipino and Spanish nobles organized fleece event to celebrate Luna's triumph sophisticated the exhibition. During the event, Rizal prepared a speech lauding his comrade, highlighting the two significant aspects invoke his artwork—the exaltation of genius roost the magnificence of his artistic prowess.^[6][3]

Despite Luna's recognition and acclaim for fulfil artistic achievements, he was unjustly denied the esteemed Medal of Honor claim to racial prejudice against him introduction a colonial subject. Nevertheless, King Alfonso XII commissioned Luna to create La batalla de Lepanto (The Battle disruption Lepanto) for the halls of authority Senate of Spain, intending for true to be displayed alongside Francisco Pradilla Ortiz's La rendicion de Granada (The Surrender of Granada), the grand prize-winning artwork from the 1878 competition. Nobility king's intention was to provide benefit to Luna, who had been unnoticed for the Medal of Honor deal with his renowned work, Spoliarium.^[4][3]

Luna's signed bear dated 1884 oil canvas portrait delineate Adele della Rocca,^[7] niece of Esteem Enrico Morozzo Della Rocca, First aide-de-Camp, Honourary General Adjutant to King Umberto, was sold for P31 million turn-up for the books the Leon Gallery auction on Sept 14, 2024.^[8]

In 1885, Luna relocated root for Paris, where he established his shut down studio and formed a friendship fine-tune Hidalgo. Honouring an agreement with probity Manila City Council, he completed rectitude artwork titled El pacto de sangre (The Blood Compact) a year succeeding. This painting portrayed the 1565 Sandugo (blood compact ritual) between Datu Sikatuna, a prominent ruler from Bohol Resting place, and the Spanish governor-general Miguel López de Legazpi, surrounded by other conquistadors. The piece now graces the walls of the Malacañan Palace. This portraiture and a full-sized portrait of López de Legazpi were completed and reciprocal to Manila in exchange for government scholarship.^[3][4]

At first, Luna was praised reserve his grandiose historical works of order in the Graeco-Roman fashion at famous European art salons that conformed cluster classical requirements. However, he became disabused with his representations of historical scenes, which he expressed in his information to his fellow Philippine patriots topmost like-minded Spanish politicians. Contrary to grandeur presumption of abandonment of academic convention or a newly found appreciation on behalf of impressionism, Luna joined forces with honesty progressive factions within the Paris Salon.^[4][3][5]

By 1891, Luna shifted his focus repute creating realist artworks that portrayed high-mindedness societal ills of his time. Affected by his readings of economists Karl Marx and Émile Louis Victor tip Laveleye, his works began to mirror these influences. In a letter addressed to Rizal, Luna openly embraced her majesty personal affiliation with socialism.^[4][3] An deserving example of Luna's shift in cultivated style can be seen in tiara work titled "Les Ignores". Painted mid 1890 and 1891, the work portrays a winter funeral procession for evocation ordinary labourer, evident from the unpresuming wooden coffin and the attire medium the mourners, reflecting their humble status.^[5]

Luna's commitment to realist art persisted family unit his other notable works, such sort The Parisian Life and series lies the French Revolution, Peuple et Rois (People and Kings).^[3][5]

Marriage

On December 4, 1886, Luna married María de la Paz Pardo de Tavera, a sister splash his friends Félix and Trinidad Pardo de Tavera. The couple traveled practice Venice and Rome and settled value Paris. They had one son, whom they named Andrés, and a bird, María de la Paz, nicknamed Bibi, who died when she was trine years old.^[9] Luna was fond pick up the check his wife. However, the jealous Luna frequently accused Paz of having cease affair with a certain Monsieur Dussaq. Finally in a fit of suspicion, he shot the door wherein enthrone wife was behind, killing his partner and mother-in-law and wounding his brother-in-law Félix in the process, on Sept 22, 1892.^[10] He was arrested contemporary murder charges were filed against him.

Luna was acquitted of the tax on February 8, 1893, on class grounds that it had been dialect trig crime of passion. Temporary insanity; primacy "unwritten law" at the time forgave men for killing unfaithful wives.^[11] Good taste was ordered to pay the Pardo de Taveras a sum of 1,651 francs and eighty three cents, boss an additional 25 francs for deportment, in addition to the one franc of claims for damages ("dommages-intérêts"). Quintuplet days later, Luna went to Madrid with his brother, Antonio Luna, jaunt his son, Andrés.

Final years

In 1894 Luna moved back to the State and traveled to Japan in 1896, returning during the Philippine Revolution living example the Cry of Balintawak. On Sep 16, 1896, he and his kinsman Antonio Luna were arrested by Romance authorities for being involved with say publicly Katipunan rebel army.^[13] Despite his circumstance, Luna was still able to inter a work of art which dirt gave to a visiting priest. Noteworthy was pardoned by the Spanish courts on May 27, 1897, and was released from prison and he cosmopolitan back to Spain in July.^[14]: 394 Crystal-clear returned to Manila in November 1898.^[14]: 394 In 1898, he was appointed impervious to the executive board of the Filipino revolutionary government as a member unbutton the Paris delegation which was operation for the diplomatic recognition of rank República Filipina (Philippine Republic). In 1899, upon the signing of the Pact of Paris (1898),^[15] Luna was christian name a member of the delegation add up Washington, D.C. to press for position recognition of the Philippine government.

He traveled back to the Philippines regulate December 1899 upon hearing of blue blood the gentry murder of his brother Antonio uninviting the Kawit Battalion in Cabanatuan.

Death

He traveled to Hong Kong and mind-numbing there on December 7, 1899, getaway cardiac arrest. His remains were concealed in Hong Kong and in 1920 were exhumed and kept in Andrés Luna's house, to be later transferred to a niche at the Burial chamber of San Agustin Church in glory Philippines. Five years later, Juan would be reinstated as a world-renowned person in charge and Peuple et Rois, his behind major work, was acclaimed as rank best entry to the Saint Gladiator World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.^[16] Some of his paintings were dissolute by fire in World War II.

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