Woman who ruined Spanish artwork says priest knew she was painting on it

TODAY ^ | Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

[Jeff Chandler]

As far as I'm concerned, her ‘repair’ job is no worse than some of the ‘priceless’ Picasso’s I've seen.

Shhh ... that's the pathetic secret about modern "art". Don't tell anybody.

[Jeff Chandler]

She did a much more finessed restoration on the Mona Lisa.

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(Appreciative nods to the incomparable Rick Meyerowitz.)

[RegulatorCountry]

That began well before post 43, ROE.

[RegulatorCountry]

As fetching as ever, lol.

[boatbums]

LOL!!! Yeah, looks like her work.

[Revolting cat!]

A history of art moment. Like that fool Herostrates she found her way into history books.

Must be Spanish. A Hispanic would never do that!

[BlueDragon]

Must be Spanish. A Hispanic would never do that!

She was just doing the work those bums from Hispania were too lazy to do...

[Running On Empty]

I read them all.

BTW, I have very close connections with those who call themselves “Spaniards”. They do NOT refer to themselves as “hispanic”.

And a family member who works in Argentina uses the word “latino”.

FWIW

[RegulatorCountry]

Read any standard dictionary definition of the word. Look into the etymology of the word. Hispania is the Iberian Peninsula. Spain. Hispanics are Spanish speakers.

[Running On Empty]

Perhaps, then, cultural usage trumps etymology and geography.

Also, one can go to Spain and hear Castilian, to Argentina and hear Spanish with an Italian lyricism, to Chile and hear something quite different, not only in accent but in common usage. It’s easy to discern Cuban Spanish and Puerto Rican Spanish from those who speak it in the Hiberian Peninsula.. And then....there is Spanish as spoken by a Filipino.

See how far this can go?

Finis.

[RegulatorCountry]

You engaged me, ROE, so it’s certainly your prerogative to declare your intent to end it, lol.

[Religion Moderator]

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

[Religion Moderator]

Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Christopher Columbus was Castilian..."

Columbus was Genovesi.

[visualops]

hahahaha oh that was hilarious

[Cvengr]

The Hispanic culture arose from those settling from Spain, while those who are Latino are derived from the Roman Catholic Church settling in the Central and South Americas. There are many Latinos who never came from Spain, but fewer Hispanics who also were independent of Latino culture.

Latino is discernible from Anglican settlers in the New World. Hispanic culture tended to arise from those given land grant from the King of Spain.

(Latinos drive green Impalas, while Hispanics ride thoroughbred horses. ;^)

[RegulatorCountry]

That may be a concensus but it’s far from settled. Cuban Castilians claim him as one of their own. He did represent Isabela of Castile. He has been variously claimed to be Catalonian, Portuguese, French, Norwegian, Sephardic, Spanish Converso and even Polish in addition to Genoese.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Columbus himself alludes to his birthplace. In 1502 he wrote from Spain to directors of Genoa's Bank of San Giorgio, offering an endowment to relieve the city's poor of the tax on food and wine. "Even though my body walks here," he wrote poignantly, "my heart is always there." Christopher Columbus appears to have donated one-tenth of his income from his discovery of the Americas to the Bank of San Giorgio in Genoa for the relief of taxation on foods."

[RegulatorCountry]

Historians agree that Columbus wrote in Portuguese tinged Castilian Spanish, including the letter you cite, and furthermore that he could not write in Italian.

[Joe 6-pack]

Italian was not the native language of Genoa at the time...so his inability to write in Italian means what? And that is your proof that he was Castilian?