Competing with the Independence Day coverage the other day was the news on the repatriation of a long-lost work by Juan Luna—'Hymen, O Hyménée'—painted during his honeymoon in Italy and later exhibited in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, where it was awarded a bronze medal. The painting on view at the Ayala Museum till the end of the year gives us pause, and helps us appreciate his other works outside 'Spoliarium.'Luna's greatest misfortune was to be canonized in Philippine art history as the greatest Filipino painter of the 19th century.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/164023/lunas-pursuit-of-greatness

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