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    Félix Resurrección Hidalgo's 1884 painting "Christian Virgins Exposed to the Populace" depicts two scantily clad Christian slave women being mocked by Roman men. The painting won a silver medal at an exhibition in Madrid, Spain. It is considered one of the Philippines' national treasures and is known for highlighting the persecution of early Christians and the vulnerability of its female subjects. Along with another famous Philippine painting, it featured themes of human exploitation to satisfy the scholarly tastes of its European audience.

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    Félix Resurrección Hidalgo's 1884 painting "Christian Virgins Exposed to the Populace" depicts two scantily clad Christian slave women being mocked by Roman men. The painting won a silver medal at an exhibition in Madrid, Spain. It is considered one of the Philippines' national treasures and is known for highlighting the persecution of early Christians and the vulnerability of its female subjects. Along with another famous Philippine painting, it featured themes of human exploitation to satisfy the scholarly tastes of its European audience.

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    Félix Resurrección Hidalgo's 1884 painting "Christian Virgins Exposed to the Populace" depicts two scantily clad Christian slave women being mocked by Roman men. The painting won a silver medal at an exhibition in Madrid, Spain. It is considered one of the Philippines' national treasures and is known for highlighting the persecution of early Christians and the vulnerability of its female subjects. Along with another famous Philippine painting, it featured themes of human exploitation to satisfy the scholarly tastes of its European audience.

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    Christian Virgins Exposed to the Populace

    Flix Resurreccin Hidalgo

    Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho or The Christian Virgins


    Exposed to the Populace is a famous 1884 history painting by Filipino painter, reformist,
    and propagandist Flix Resurreccin Hidalgo. The painting is alternately known
    as The Christian Virgins Exposed to the Rabble, Jovenes Cristianas Expuestas al
    Populacho (Christian Maidens Exposed to the Populace), Christian Virgins Presented to
    the Populace, The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace, and Christian
    Virgins Exposed to the Mob.
    The painting was a silver medalist (ninth silver medal award among fortyfiveduring the 1884 Exposicion General de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain, also known as
    the Madrid Exposition. According to Raquel A.G. Reyes, Hidalgo's winning the silver
    medal for the painting was a landmark achievement that proved the ability of Filipinos to
    match the work of Spaniards and laid claim to Filipino participation in European culture.
    Regarded as one of the national treasures of the Philippines, a copy of the
    painting is currently housed at the Philippine's Metropolitan Museum of Manilaand a part
    of the art collection of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines).
    The original was destroyed in a fire at the University of Valladolid in Spain.
    Description
    An oil on canvas painting measuring 1.15 m 1.57 m (45 62 in), Las Virgenes
    Cristianas Expuestas al
    Populacho is a
    "landmark painting"
    depicting
    the persecution ofChristians in Ancient Rome. Described as a masterpiece remarkable
    in the aspects of quality, composition, and historical context, it portrays two scantily
    clothed Christian female slaves being mocked by a group of boorish Roman male
    onlookers. One of the women is posed seated naked at the foreground of the painting
    with her "head bowed in misery". The semi-nude women have been stripped not only of
    their garments but also of their dignity. Created in the academic style of Europe, the
    unfortunate women in the artwork are considered by some indigenous Filipinos as
    virgins "being led out, stolen from, and ridiculed".The women are young virgins cornered
    by a mob of "sexually hungry" Roman men. One of the men has his hand over one
    semi-naked female whose eyes are "looking up to heaven" asking and begging for "help
    that never comes".
    Together with Juan Luna's Spoliarium, Hidalgos Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al
    Populacho presents "human spoliage and spoils", with human spoilage more related to
    Luna's Spoliarium and the human spoils closer to Hidalgo's Las Virgenes Cristianas
    Expuestas al Populacho. Such themes were presented to the "juries and audiences" of
    the Madrid exposition in order to satisfy the "erudition-quotient" essential to the
    conservative scholarly Neoclassicism of Hidalgo and Luna while they were spending
    time in Europe.

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