Buendia demystified Spoliarium in a podcast episode of Wake Up With Jim Saab.

Meaning of juan luna's spoliarium. The Spoliarium is considered to be the most valuable oil-on-canvas painting by Juan Luna a Filipino educated at the Academia de Dibujo y Pintura Philippines and at the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid Spain. Eraserheads frontman Ely Buendia revealed the meaning of their controversial song Spoliarium. Spoliarium was the name given to the Roman Colosseum basement where fallen gladiators were stripped of their armor and weapons and then prepared for burial.

The painting also has a hidden message not many realize. The Spoliarium is a painting created by Filipino painter Juan Luna. The enigmatic cut from 1997s Sticker Happy album whose title is a reference to Juan Lunas magnum opus was inspired by Swiss liquor Goldschläger.

For the longest time the song of the popular Pinoy that was based on the painting of Juan Luna has created an urban legend. The Spoliarium By Juan Luna. If you do not find the exact resolution you are looking for.

Spoliarium was the best masterpiece of Juan Luna because it had perfectly exemplified what it takes to be a world- renowned painter at a very young age of 24. The painting shows the Juan Lunas socio-cultural and political views and also his affections. July 20 2016.

The picture shows how gladiators are being dragged pitilessly by work forces towards an unknown darkness. The Spoliarium which is the Coliseums chamber where dead bodies of gladiators are being disposed is where Luna got his inspiration for this artwork. Often mistaken by that spelling it is really spelled as Spoliarium a term in ancient Rome known as the morgue of the Gladiators in the Coliseum.

It portrays gladiators who were once the symbols of splendor but now after their defeat they are treated like slaves. Its the largest painting in the Philippines with its size of 422 meters x. This depicts bodies of dead gladiators being dragged from a Roman arena which is being viewed by spectators on the left side of the painting.