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110			_aAyala Museum Research Team _9156
245			_aMariano M. Benlliure: Bust of Juan Novicio Luna.1884
500			_aBronze sculptue of a bust of Juan Luna Y Novicio, by Mariano Benlliure. 16 inches tall. sined M Benlliure,dated 1884, Roma. This rare and priceless bust of Luna was at one time owned by Ireneo U. Cristobal of the Taller de Escultura on Echague, Manila. He bought it cheap from a pushcart vendor during the Liberation and had turned down many tempting offers from local collectors to buy it. This was sculptured in 1884 when Luna won the gold medal award for his "Spoliarium" in the Expositions Nacional de Bellas Artes in Madrid. Luna was then 27 years old. In 1881, Luna took a room in apartment No. 33 at Via Margutta, Rome togetherwith the Benlliure brothers from Valencia, Spain. Maiano, a student of sculpture and Juan Antonio, of painting.
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591			_aReproduction: Sculpture
648			_a1884 _932149
650			_aSculptures _910843
653			_aartists
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653			_apainters
653			_aMariano Benlliure
653			_aireneo cristobal
856			_3View in Retrato website _uhttp://www.retrato.com.ph/photodtl.asp?id=AC00942
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