Jerónimo Podestá forgotten. When Podestá was dying, Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J. (later Pope Francis), reached out to him and his wife. He was the only Argentine church official to visit Podestá in the hospital. Luro later said that Bergoglio defended her from the sharpest Vatican attacks on her for marrying Podestá. He died in Buenos Aires on June 23, 2000. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato later said he had "suffered injustice, lack of understanding, slander and gossip". Clelia Luro de Podestá died in Buenos Aires on November 4, 2013. Jerónimo Podestá Jerónimo José Podestá (August 8, 1920 – June
Jorge Orta (artist) Jorge Orta (artist) Jorge Orta (born 1953) is a Paris-based, Italian-Argentinian contemporary visual artist. Jorge Orta was born in 1953, in Rosario, Argentina. After graduating simultaneously from the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Orta began his career as a painter, winning numerous awards for his work. In response to the increasing censorship of the Argentine military regime, his practice shifted to more avant-garde and alternative forms of visual communication, such as mail art and action-performance, working in underground artist collectives. He was the first Argentine artist to explore video and