fun in museum
Jun. 23rd, 2007 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amelia_petkovaI'd forgotten this incident until a couple minutes ago.
When my parents and brother were visiting me in Spain, we went into Valencia's Museum of Fine Arts, which contains a lot of religious artwork. (I was most surprised by an image of the Virgin and Jesus that I hadn't seen before: a very well-endowed Mary, breast-feeding baby Jesus. I was never told about that icon when I was attending Catholic elementary school!)
Mom calls me over to one painting. As many words in Spanish are similar to words in English, she was able to mostly translate the title of a painting. It reads something like, "St. Augustine and the Visition from the Angel of Music."
Mom: I've got this translation right?
Me: And you've never taken Spanish, too!
Mom: So...the saint was visited by the Phantom of the Opera?
Me: It would seem so.
And who says religion is without humor?
When my parents and brother were visiting me in Spain, we went into Valencia's Museum of Fine Arts, which contains a lot of religious artwork. (I was most surprised by an image of the Virgin and Jesus that I hadn't seen before: a very well-endowed Mary, breast-feeding baby Jesus. I was never told about that icon when I was attending Catholic elementary school!)
Mom calls me over to one painting. As many words in Spanish are similar to words in English, she was able to mostly translate the title of a painting. It reads something like, "St. Augustine and the Visition from the Angel of Music."
Mom: I've got this translation right?
Me: And you've never taken Spanish, too!
Mom: So...the saint was visited by the Phantom of the Opera?
Me: It would seem so.
And who says religion is without humor?
