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To: combjelly who wrote (343966)	7/23/2007 9:33:29 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574680

Much if not actually most of the Vatican and Catholic Church's wealth was created like the wealth of any other Royalty, just look at the British and the Durch Royal Houses. They took and stole it in their wars, banned and executed the original owners the best they could. Doubt the Vatican bought much of that art from the struggling young artists as you try to tell us here to support your position. Of course they wanted the best possible decoration from the most achknowledged artists of their time for their most prestigeous rooms and thus had to pay for that - to established top artists. Tell me about one struggling young unknown painter, who was "sponsored" by them and thus made it from rags to riches. A link would be nice... You still defend the position, that the Government must indeed fund art today in lieu of the former times "sponsors"? Dalí pretty much made it to fame - and next riches "funded" by "sponsoring" rich American collectors - on his own by means of his enormous skills and self marketing through his (what looked like) follies. Picasso and Kahnweiler, the dealer who smelled marketable art like a shark sniffs blood sea miles away, teamed up to get rich together. Sponsorship? Not hardly. Matters were not much different before, nor have they changed much recently. Taro