At some point in history, between 1883-1884, a friendship between Spanish sculptor Mariano Benlliure and Juan Luna blossomed, together with other Filipino expats in Europe such as Felix Ressureccion Hidalgo and Pedro Paterno.
In 1884, Spanish sculptor Benlliure molded a bust of Juan Luna but unfortunately, this was lost in the battle of Manila in 1945 and was still marked as lost even after independence in 1946. Yet, there was a glimmer of hope that this bust might have survived the destruction of the old legislative building which, as director Jeremy Barnes says, had been floating around for quite some time.
The late Dr. Jak Pilar also referred the team to an image kept in the Filipinas Heritage Library of the Ayala Foundation and it was this last piece of information with its associated notes that first told them that the bust in the image had been recovered in the rubble of the war by a push cart vendor who sold it to a certain Irene Cristobal.
They soon afterwards transmitted all of their knowledge on the matter, incorporating their research – historical, curatorial, and legal – together with that which was contributed by Isidra Reyes, who posted an article on the bust on the Facebook page Manila Nostalgia, including an image of the cover of Chronicle Magazine from Dec. 9, 1967.
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