For the film that was named "Spoliarium" prior to its release in 2019, see Alone/Together.
Spoliarium
Artist
Juan Luna
Year
1884
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
4.22 m × 7.675 m (13.8 ft × 25.18 ft)
Location
National Museum of Fine Arts, Manila
The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. Luna, working on canvas, spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid, where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three).[1] The picture recreates a despoiling scene in a Roman circus where dead gladiators are stripped of weapons and garments. Together with other works of the Spanish Academy, the Spoliarium was on exhibit in Rome in April 1884.[2]
In 1886, the painting was sold to the provincial government of Barcelona for 20,000 pesetas. It currently hangs in the main gallery at the first floor of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Manila, and is the first work of art that greets visitors upon entry into the museum. The National Museum considers it the largest painting in the Philippines with dimensions of 4.22 meters x 7.675 meters.[3]
Filipino historian Ambeth Ocampo writes, "...the fact remains that when Luna and Félix Resurrección Hidalgo won the top awards in the Madrid Exposition of 1884, they proved to the world that indios could, despite their supposed barbarian race, paint better than the Spaniards who colonized them."[4]
^Gaceta de Madrid, no. 164, 12/06/1884, p. 694
^"Before the Spoliarium was sent to the 1884..." Ambeth R. Ocampo. Facebook. July 7, 2020. Archived from the original on September 3, 2022. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
^"Spoliarium, 1958". National Museum of the Philippines. Facebook. March 30, 2013. Archived from the original on September 3, 2022. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
^Ocampo, Ambeth R. (2000). Rizal Without the Overcoat. Anvil Publishing.
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