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    La Laguna Estigia

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    La Laguna Estigia
    ArtistFélix Resurrección Hidalgo
    Year1887

    La Laguna Estigia (The River Styx or The Styx), also known simply as Laguna Estigia,[1] is an 1887 Greco-Roman painting by Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo. It is a companion-piece for Hidalgo's other painting entitled La barca de Aqueronte. Like the La barca de Aqueronte, the La Laguna Estigia on Dante's Inferno, the painter pursuing the theme leading towards a “darker” and “more somber interpretation” of it.[2]

    The painting was a silver medalist during the 1887 Exposicion General de las Islas Filipinas in Madrid, Spain.[3]

    References

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    1. ^ Kulay-Diwa Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art (2009). "Felix Ressurreccion Hidalgo". Archived from the original on 15 July 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
    2. ^ "La Laguna Estigia (The River Styx) from La Barca de Aqueronte". Lopez Memorial Museum. 2003. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
    3. ^ "La Laguna Estigia (The River Styx) from Module Three - El Asesinato Del Governador Bustamante Y Su Hijo: Powerand Conflict" (PDF). Lopez Memorial Museum. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2010.


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