Juan Luna: A Titan of Philippine Romanticism Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (1857 – 1899) stands as one of the Philippines’s most celebrated artists, a figure whose dramatic canvases captured the spirit of his era and cemented his place in the annals of European art history. Born in Bacnotan, Pangasinan, Luna possessed an innate talent for visual storytelling from a young age—a passion nurtured by early studies at Escuela de…