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Raden Saleh and Juan Luna's agile navigation of these competing positions resulted in dramatic paintings that have been read as allegories of anti- colonialism in their respective homelands of Indonesia and the Philippines. From Orientalist hunting scenes to realist portrayals of the working class, their works trace stylistic shifts in painting through the 19th century, while re ecting the cultural and social dynamics of this period of enormous change.