Word: javeriana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bogotá's art fraternity was enthusiastic about Rodriguez' luminous beauties. The Spanish ambassador asked to borrow two of them for exhibition in Spain. But decency leaguers, known as the beatas (the pious ones), were scandalized. Father Eduardo Ospina, Jesuit professor of art at the Universidad Javeriana, sided with the beatas: "Crowds don't possess the artistic capacity to appreciate the total beauty of the human body." Bogotá's Roman Catholic archbishop, Monsignor Crisanto Luque, formally asked the Education Ministry (which runs the museum) to take the offending ladies down...
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