![]() ![]() Columbus went to every royal who could afford the upfront capital, but like a microwave with a baby setting on Shark Tank, his investment opportunity was turned down every time. Irving’s misunderstanding begins when Columbus was trying to finance his initial voyage. So what exactly did Irving get wrong?Ĭolumbus offers his services to the King of Portugal by Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Historians have long since eviscerated his ‘historical’ account of Columbus but the damage was done and the story stuck. You may not recognize Irving’s name but there’s a really good chance you’ve heard of one of his other works: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Though I do totally respect the ‘Steve Buscemi eyes’ Piombo gave Columbus, how did the guy who discovered the Earth was round not get a portrait? Oh, and who can forget about discovering America? Well, maybe it’s because Columbus did neither.Ī lot of misinformation regarding Columbus’s supposed achievements came from the first popularized “biography” written by Washington Irving in 1828. It may be surprising to find out no first-hand portraits of Columbus have ever been discovered so what he actually looked like is completely unknown. While it claims to be a portrait of Christopher Columbus is not actually a portrait at all as it was created more than a decade after his death. Let’s examine that painting by del Piombo above again. This would be the closest he would ever get to the Asia - the continent he spent all of his life trying to find a route to from Europe. In one such voyage, he traveled to the modern day Island of Khios near Greece. Somewhere in the beginning of his teenage years he joined his first trading mission on the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. Columbus was born in 1451 in what is now Italy. Portrait of a Man, Said to be Christopher Columbus by Sebastiano del Piombo at The MET. This had 500,000 more results than Hitler’s. I took to Google once again armed with a nose for knowledge that is delivered in a convenient format that requires no extra effort from me. After quickly skimming the three articles above I was left with more questions than answers. It turns out there’s a lot of controversy surrounding Columbus day. ![]() This is going to be like Paul Gauguin all over again, isn’t it? I don’t remember much about Christopher Columbus or what he did or why he’s really that important so let me give this a quick Google-ing. It’s that special October day about the three boats crossing an ocean on a quest towards whatever gets me out of work today. The Terrible (Art) History of Christopher ColumbusĬhristopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about. ![]()
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