Location: Badoc, Ilocos Norte
Category: Buildings/Structures and Personages
Type: House, Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1957
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
BIRTHPLACE OF JUAN LUNA Y NOVICIO
PATRIOT AND FOREMOST FILIPINO PAINTER. BORN IN BADOC, ILOCOS NORTE, 24 OCTOBER 1857; SON OF JOAQUIN LUNA DE SAN PEDRO AND LAUREANA NOVICIO. STUDIED IN THE ATENEO MUNICIPAL, ESCUELA DE BELLAS ARTES AND ESCUELA NAUTICA IN MANILA; BECAME A LICENSED PILOT AT 17. PUPIL OF LORENZO GUERRERO, NOTED FILIPINO PAINTER. WENT TO SPAIN, 1877, STUDIED IN THE ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO, MADRID. PAINTED IN ROME HIS FIRST FAMOUS WORK, “THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA”. WON GOLD MEDAL FOR HIS SPOLIARIUM AT THE INTERNATIONAL PAINTING EXPOSITION, 1884, IN MADRID. WON OTHER MEDALS AND HONORS IN EUROPE. AMONG HIS OTHER NOTABLE PAINTINGS WERE “THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO”, “THE BLOOD COMPACT”, “PEOPLE AND KINGS”. CO-WORKER OF RIZAL, LOPEZ–JAENA, DEL PILAR AND OTHER FILIPINO REFORMERS IN EUROPE; WAS IN THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF THE FIRST PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC. DIED IN HONGKONG, 7 DECEMBER 1899.
