Word: stairways
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...Luna's dreamy Spain and the Philippines, is painted on a tall and narrow canvas and depicts a European woman in a red gown, her hand proprietarily on the hip of a darker-skinned Filipina as she ushers the latter up a stairway to a pastel-colored horizon. The allegorical meaning of Hidalgo's oil composition The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace is rather more pointed. Playing masterfully with light and darkness, the painter chooses to depict a scene from ancient Rome wherein naked Christian virgins are being lasciviously peddled by slave traders. "Hidalgo wanted to say that...