Pictures of illegal rally in Tampa

Keep up the excellent work!

41 posted on 05/01/2006 9:35:06 PM PDT by timestax

They are kiliing the "golden goose"!

42 posted on 05/01/2006 9:36:55 PM PDT by timestax

Here is how fast the illegals are pouring into the U.S.A.

43 posted on 05/01/2006 9:39:26 PM PDT by timestax

Great pics! I love some of the LEGAL citizens' signs...

44 posted on 05/01/2006 9:41:05 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)

BTTT... slow loading pics, but worth it for this dialup user.

45 posted on 05/01/2006 10:06:12 PM PDT by LowOiL ("I am neither . I am a Christocrat" -Benjamin Rush)

Fat chance in Tampa, almost half the city is hispanic. That's probably what makes it so funny.

46 posted on 05/01/2006 10:16:26 PM PDT by LifeOrGoods? (God is not a God of fear, but of power, love and a sane mind.)

For those interested, there are two alterpieces by Fiasella at the Ringling Museum. Plus there is a little tidbit after the info about the two side altars, on some of the Genoese school of artists from which Fiasella came:

Christ Healing the Blind
c. 1615

Artist: Domenico Fiasella
Italian, 1589-1669, active in Genoa and Rome

Oil on canvas, 109 5/8 x 71 7/8 in. (278.4 x 182.6 cm)

The altarpieces Christ healing the Blind and Christ Raising the Son of the Widow Nain by Domenico Fiasella are concerned with healing. It has been conjectured that they were originally side altars painted for a chapel, perhaps in a hospital. Christ Healing the Blind shows a miracle recounted in Luke 7:21-22, "unto the many he gave sight."

Bequest of John Ringling, 1936, SN113

Christ Raising the Son of the Widow of Nain
c. 1615

Artist: Domenico Fiasella
Italian, 1589-1669, active in Genoa and Rome

Oil on canvas, 106 x 69 in. (269.2 x 175.3 cm)

Churchgoers receiving communion in 17th-century Italy probably saw the side altars, Christ Healing the Blind and Christ Raising the Son of the Widow Nain, very differently from the way we look at them today. The grandiose figure of the miracle-performing Christ was seen as mirroring the actions of the priest who was dispensing communion. Although the figures in the altar appear flat and distorted when seen from the front, they acquire a surprisingly three-dimensional appearance from a forty-five degree angle. In creating this dynamic, illusionistic composition, Fiasella was inspired by Caravaggio's famous altarpieces painted in Rome in the 1600s. In fact, these works were painted for Caravaggio's major patron, Vincenzo Giustiniani.

Bequest of John Ringling, 1936, SN112

Genoa at the Hermitage
Paintings and Drawings of the 16th-18th Centuries from Genoese Collections and the Hermitage
12 November, 2002 - 20 January, 2003

The exhibition opened in Rooms 28-32 of the Winter Palace represents the art of Genoa at its acme. It features 25 paintings from Genoese collections and 15 canvases from the Hermitage alongside 29 drawings from the Hermitage and the Cabinet of Drawings and Engravings of Palazzo Rosso.

This epoch was inaugurated by an outstanding personality, Admiral Andrea Doria. After his advent to Genoa in 1528 a large-scale construction of palaces, churches and public buildings and planning of streets and palaces commenced. To decorate Doria's palaces, the famous artist Perino del Vaga, disciple of Rafael, was invited from Rome. Thereupon Genoese aristocracy began to erect splendid edifices decorated with marbles and frescoes along Strada Nuova.
The Genoese school of art was founded in the second half of the 16th century by the outstanding painter and graphic artist Luca Cambiaso who taught such gifted artists as Lazzaro Tavarone and Bernardo Castello and exerted a creative influence on Giovanni Battista Paggi.

Genoa attracted many masters from various areas of Italy and Flanders. It was visited by Peter Paul Rubens and Antony van Dyck. An entire Flemish colony arose in Genoa around the studio of brothers Lucas and Cornelis de Wael. The art of Andrea Ansaldo combined Baroque compositions in the style of Rubens with Venetian colors.

In the first half of the 17th century Genoa occupied a place of honor in the art of Italy giving the world many talented artists including Bernardo Strozzi. The art of Rubens, Caravaggio and Tuscan and Lombard masters was laid into the foundation of the individual style of this artist. Still-life in Genoese art was represented by Gioacchino Assereto whose creations are characterized by dramatic light effects.
Another outstanding painter Domenico Fiasella at the start of his career spent some years in Rome. Assimilating Caravaggio'a chiaroscuro and naturalism of Northern masters, under the influence of Bologna and Tuscany, he built these into the Genoese tradition. Fiasella created a big studio in Genoa where he taught excellent Baroque masters. Small-size canvases of Sinibaldo Scorza with landscapes and animals were immensely popular. One of the leading Italian graphic artists and engravers Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione worked in the same vein.

47 posted on 05/01/2006 10:45:53 PM PDT by flaglady47

48 posted on 05/02/2006 1:30:05 AM PDT by zip (((Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA)))))

Oh, stop now, I'm gonna get all stuck up. :)

49 posted on 05/02/2006 3:59:48 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)

Thanks!! Fiasella painted some incredible stuff when he was younger. As he aged, his work got more refined, but it lost some of the energy that you can see in these two altarpieces. The way He's just casually walking past the blind man, as if it's no problem to restore his sight...the light on the blind man's face...makes you cry.

50 posted on 05/02/2006 4:04:38 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)

Oh man, now I really FEEL old. She didn't look that old to me at all ... LOL (note long-standing tag line).

51 posted on 05/02/2006 7:45:51 AM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)

Great pix, thanks! I live in Pinellas County and drove through St. Pete yesterday, but didn't see any protest activity on this side of the bay. Maybe there was some, tho.

52 posted on 05/02/2006 7:50:12 AM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)

Sorry. She looks old enough to be someone's grandma. Of course, according to the Guiness Book, the youngest grandma in the world was 17 years old, so just about anyone is old enough to be a grandmother.

Funny, i called American Express yesterday and didn't get that "press 1 for English" thing. Coincidence? I think SO.

53 posted on 05/02/2006 7:51:54 AM PDT by uncitizen (I survived a day without an illegal and all i got was this lousy tagline)

This is amusing!

I think the group in Tampa were the usual suspects. ANSWER and a rent a mob. I am sure they told the farmworkers there , "Bush will make you criminals and send you to Iraqi Front to fight an imperialist war for oil."

Rent a mob 101

54 posted on 05/02/2006 7:54:07 AM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)

I know what you mean ... I absolutely detest having to CHOOSE English on phone systems.

And yes, that woman definitely looks old enough to be someone's grandmother ... as do I!!

... big sigh ...

55 posted on 05/02/2006 7:59:33 AM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)

I was just in Tampa for a 4 day visit. Had to leave yesterday though. Missed the fun. Where was the protest located?

56 posted on 05/02/2006 8:14:38 AM PDT by sinclair (If fences don't work, tear down the one around the White House.)

To: sinclair; ovrtaxt

Nevermind the location inquiry. I looked a little closer and saw the street signs. My son works just off Dale Mabry by the football stadium.

57 posted on 05/02/2006 8:19:17 AM PDT by sinclair (If fences don't work, tear down the one around the White House.)

58 posted on 05/02/2006 8:43:36 AM PDT by JustPiper (So say your fond farewells! Mecha means fuse, and it is lit !)

It was at Columbus and Dale Mabry.

Like I said rent a mob. That area used to be pretty firmly Cuban and proAmerica. Lots of Mexicans have been moving in and changing the character. They still would have to ship in mobs.

That is "Brothers to the Rescue" corner dedicated to those shot down by Castro. What a horror it had communists on it.

59 posted on 05/02/2006 2:42:53 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)

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