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| 1857 births | |
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born on October 23 , 1857 in Badoc , Ilocos Norte , the third child of seven children. He showed artistic promise early on and was encouraged to take painting and traveled to Rome to study the masters. He settled in Paris and married a prominent Filipina from the 'Mestizaje' family of Pardo de Tavera. Their marriage soured owing to the alleged infidelity of his spouse whom he shot in a fit of anger. Tried by a French court and subsequently absolved, he returned to the Philippines after an absence of almost 20 years. His most famous piece, '' The Spoliarium ,'' for which he won top prize at the 1884 Madrid Exposition hangs in the Presidential palace in Manila. Upon his return to the Philippines, he was arrested two years later under suspicion of sedition. He was later pardoned. His brother, General Antonio Luna , was an active participant in the insurgent Katipunan movement. In 1898 , after the United States defeated Spain in the Spanish-American War , the fledgling Philippine Republic appointed him as a delegate to the Paris convention and to Washington, D.C. to help gain recognition of Philippine sovereignty and independence. Luna died in Hong Kong December 7 , 1899 , upon hearing of his Brother’s Assassination by members of the Katipunan. REFERENCES |
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