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    Juan Luna's painting Spoliarium depicts bloodied gladiators being dragged away after fighting Roman oppressors. It symbolizes the oppression of the Filipino people by outside forces. The painting won three gold medals at an exhibition in Spain in 1884 due to its powerful social and political message. It is now on display at the National Museum of the Philippines and is the first painting visitors see, a testament to its historical and cultural significance.

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    Juan Luna's painting Spoliarium depicts bloodied gladiators being dragged away after fighting Roman oppressors. It symbolizes the oppression of the Filipino people by outside forces. The painting won three gold medals at an exhibition in Spain in 1884 due to its powerful social and political message. It is now on display at the National Museum of the Philippines and is the first painting visitors see, a testament to its historical and cultural significance.

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    Juan Luna's painting Spoliarium depicts bloodied gladiators being dragged away after fighting Roman oppressors. It symbolizes the oppression of the Filipino people by outside forces. The painting won three gold medals at an exhibition in Spain in 1884 due to its powerful social and political message. It is now on display at the National Museum of the Philippines and is the first painting visitors see, a testament to its historical and cultural significance.

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    The passage discusses the historical and social significance of Juan Luna's painting Spoliarium. It depicts slain gladiators and represents the oppression faced by Filipinos under Spanish colonial rule.

    Spoliarium depicts bloodied bodies of gladiator slaves being dragged away after attempting to fight their Roman oppressors. It represents the political, moral, and social lives of Filipinos facing oppression.

    Spoliarium received three gold medals at the 1884 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in Spain, winning numerous top awards for painting excellence.

    THE HISTORICAL TRIUMPH AND SOCIAL

    RELEVANCE OF JUAN LUNA’S SPOLIARIUM

    The embers of Philippine history are as colorful as the Filipinos regard for
    Philippine visual arts. These types of artworks depict the inner political and socio-
    cultural views; as well as the sentiments of a Filipino master painter, like Juan
    Luna. HisSpoliarium was all about the bloodied bodies of gladiators, who were
    drawn as slaves; and dragged away from the wide and powerful arena as they
    attempted to fight their Roman oppressors, with their own precious and God
    given lives. In addition, these slaves on this world-renowned painting of Juan
    Luna were physically stripped of their clothing in order to gratify the lewd and
    devilish contempt of those Roman oppressors. Thus, this had excellently
    embodied the essence of the political, moral and social lives of the Filipino,
    based on the critical analysis of Dr. Jose Rizal, the national hero of the
    Philippines; and a contemporary of Luna. According to the author of Noli Me
    Tangere, the masterpiece of Juan Luna centered on the severe ordeal of the
    Filipino nation, in which its encompassing human nature, had never been
    regained.
    JUAN LUNA'S SPOLARIUM, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES (PHOTO COURTESY: VICKY RAS-ALTAIE @
    MRSVICKYALTAIE ON INSTAGRAM)

    Also, his Spoliarium had provided a distinctive picture and persona of an open
    struggle against reason and idealism, which were coupled with justice, fanaticism
    and cases of prejudice. Historically, the Spoliariumwas a remarkable painting
    which was submitted by the young and genius Juan Luna at the
    Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes, in the capital city of Spain in 1884. Due to
    its tremendous interpretations of the sociological situations in the Philippines, the
    said masterpiece had bagged the first three gold medals out of the numerous
    and much coveted citations for painting excellence. Conversely, the Spoliarium
    of Juan Luna was sold for 20,000 pesetas toDiputaciom Provincial de Barcelona.
    Hence, the said genial craftsmanship of Luna can be found at the National
    Museum in the Philippines. “Would you believe?” If anyone of you will visit the
    said national depository of the Filipino nation, this masterpiece of his would be
    the first thing that visitors and spectators alike, would ever see. Wonderful and
    impressive, isn’t it?

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    clad in golden robes, has her arms outstretched and her Immaculate
    Heartexposed, while two or three white doves rest at her hands and feet.
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    where it is kept on January 24.

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