Las Damas Romanas [SEP] creator
Las Damas Romanas
Las Damas Romanas (literally, "The Roman Dames"), also known as The Roman Maidens, The Roman Women, or The Roman Ladies, is an oil on canvas painting by Juan Luna, one of the most important Filipino painters of the Spanish period in the Philippines. It was painted by Luna when he was a student of the school of painting in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) in Madrid, Spain in 1877.
The notion was discarded because Luna was unmarried when he painted "Las Damas Romanas".
Luna finished "Las Damas Romanas" after winning a silver medal for "The Death of Cleopatra" painting in 1881 and before obtaining a gold medal for the masterpiece "Spoliarium" in 1884 (both were presented during the Madrid Exposition during the years mentioned). In 1886, Luna was awarded a Diploma of Honor at the Munich Art Exposition (also known as the Munich Salon) for painting "Las Damas Romanas". The