“Juan Luna’s Crime of Passion” (10/16/20). Being fluent in French, I found that the narratives in France and in the Philippines differ greatly not only around the story of the murder, but also in ...

Scholars speculate that the imagery could mirror the artist’s own wedding to his wife – one that ... in between who had some connection to Juan Luna and to the Philippines,” he said.

in which he recalls a conversation he had with the late Mita Pardo de Tavera about Juan Luna who murdered his wife, Maria “Paz” Pardo de Tavera, and his mother-in-law, Doña Juliana Gorricho, in 1892.

Woman’s voice The other? A novel about Juan Luna’s wife, Maria de la Paz Pardo de Tavera, whom Luna killed in a fit of jealousy in 1892. “I want to do a story where I recover the voice of a ...