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A Long-Lost Juan Luna Bust Has Resurfaced Again After Nearly 80 Years

Previously thought to have been lost during the Battle of Manila, Mariano Benlliure's fabled bronze Luna bust was recently turned over to the National Museum.

Long has it been since the public last saw Mariano Benlliure's prized "Bust of Juan Luna y Novicio." Too long, really. Seventy-eight years, to be exact. The Spanish sculptor wound up creating one of the more intimate portraits of arguably ...

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