Homage to Luna and Hidalgo

By: Jose Rizal

Lustañas -- Magbag -- 2-ELS

WHAT: toast / few words of congratulations

WHERE: Restaurant Inglés, Madrid

WHEN:June 25, 1884 ; evening

WHY: To honor Juan Luna and Félix Resurección Hidalgo

“El Expolarium”• painted by Juan Luna • won gold medal“Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al

Populacho”• painted by Félix Resurección Hidalgo • won a silver medal

“El Expolarium”

“Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho”

According to Rizal:• Luna and Hidalgo’s achievement illuminated

the two ends of the world--- the Orient and the West.

• “Creative geniuses”• The patriarchal era of the Philippines is

passing

What’s in the speech?

What’s in the speech?• “..to you are owed the beauty of the

diamonds that the Philippines wears in her crown; she produced the precious stones, Europe polished them.”

• “illustrious achievements of Philippines’ children are no longer consummated within the home”

• Praised the youth that fires much enthusiasm

• FILIPINO YOUTH- “sacred hope of my homeland”

• “Spain, as mother, teaches also her language to the Philippines in spite of the opposition of those myopic me and pygmies…”

• Luna and Hidalgo are the generous hopes, precious examples.

• Mutual embrace of the two races

What’s in the speech?

What’s in the speech?LUNA’S HIDALGO’S

• Exhibit’s oppression• “is not mute”• Dark

• “melancholy, beauty, frailty, victims of brutal force”• Light

• “Expresses social, moral and political life”• injustices

BEHIND THE SPEECH• Political appeal disguised as a toast• Appeal for EQUALITY and BROTHERHOOD

between Spaniards and Indios• Indios Filipinos• Opened the eyes of his countrymen to the

abuses of Spain• Acknowledged Spain

To...• Indios• Spanish Government/ Spaniards

Sources: Political And Historical Writings by Jose Rizal, National Historical Institute (1977, popular

edition), translator unnamed; also, Jose Rizal, Political and Historical Writings, as translated by Encarnacion Alzona for the Rizal Centennial Commission, copy courtesy of the Lopez Memorial Library and Museum; the two translations substantially differ in style; comparison with the Spanish original, and the commingling and further modernization of the two English translations, courtesy of Raul Guerrero Montemayor, Mexico City. This translation originally appeared in Volume 1 of 20 Speeches that Moved a Nation (Platypus Publishing, 2001).

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