{"id":80816,"date":"2025-10-14T22:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80816\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:18:07","slug":"spanish-19th-century-columbus-painting-defaced-by-activists-will-require-a-second-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/80816\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish 19th century Columbus painting defaced by activists will require a ‘second reconstruction’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 19th century painting of a tribute to Christopher Columbus that was defaced by activists in Madrid on Sunday will require a “second reconstruction”, according to Spain’s Department of Defence. <\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 Garnelo’s work entitled ‘Primer homenaje a Crist\u00f3bal Col\u00f3n’ (First tribute to Christopher Columbus) was damaged by two members of the Futuro Vegetal collective who allegedly threw biodegradable red paint <\/a>at the painting in protest at Spain’s national holiday celebrations.<\/p>\n

“Although it has suffered minimal damage, a second reconstruction will be necessary,” the Defence Ministry announced on social media,coinciding with the Defence Minister Margarita Robles’ visit to the Naval Museum to supervise the repair.<\/p>\n

Museum officials have already provided a “brief summary” of the measures undertaken to ensure that the canvas suffers “the least possible damage” during the process.<\/p>\n

The Naval Museum has also reported<\/a> that “the painting has been cleaned and is now ready to be assessed for the next phase”. According to the institution, in a post on social networks, “it now remains to decide on the type of restoration”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 14\/10\/2025 – 15:17 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A 19th century painting of a tribute to Christopher Columbus that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12721,2273,307,304,305,306,52554,2128,308,93,61,60,2283,2846],"class_list":{"0":"post-80816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-activism","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-christopher-columbus","15":"tag-cultural-heritage","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-painting","21":"tag-spain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}