Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes Argentina I Latina Argentina

Fine art museum in Buenos Aires, Argentine republic

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Facade of the museum in 2017 Location within Buenos Aires

Established	25 December 1896 (25 December 1896)
Location	Avenida del Libertador 1473 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Blazon	Fine art museum
Director	Andrés Duprat
Website	www.bellasartes.gob.ar

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ("National Museum of Fine Arts") is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta department of the city. The Museum inaugurated a co-operative in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Rodin, Manet and Chagall among other artists.

History [edit]

The Casa de Bombas building circa 1900, the electric current location of the museum.

Argentine painter and art critic Eduardo Schiaffino, was the kickoff director of the museum, which opened on 25 December 1895, in a building on Florida Street that today houses the Galerías Pacífico shopping mall. In 1909, the museum moved to a building in Plaza San Martín, originally erected in Paris as the Argentine Pavilion for the 1889 Paris exhibition, and later dismantled and brought to Buenos Aires. In its new home, the museum became part of the International Centenary Exhibition held in Buenos Aires in 1910. Following the demolition of the pavilion in 1932, as part of the remodeling of Plaza San Martín, the museum was transferred to its present location in 194 3, a building originally constructed in 1870 as a drainage pumping station and adapted to its current use by builder Alejandro Bustillo.

The museum was modernized both physically and in its collections during the 1955–64 tenure of director Jorge Romero Brest. A temporary exhibits pavilion opened in 1961, and the museum acquired a large volume of mod art though its collaboration with the Torcuato di Tella Establish, a leading promoter of local, avant-garde artists, and elsewhere; a contemporary Argentine fine art pavilion opened in 1980. This 1,536 foursquare metres (16,533 sq ft) hall is the largest of 34 currently in apply at the museum, which totals 4,610 square metres (49,622 sq ft) of exhibit space. Its permanent collection totals 688 major works and over 12,000 sketches, fragments, potteries, and other minor works. The institution besides maintains a specialized library, totaling 150,000 volumes, also as a public auditorium. The museum commissioned architect Mario Roberto Álvarez to design a branch in the Patagonian region urban center of Neuquén. Inaugurated in 2004, this museum has 4 exhibit halls totaling 2,500 foursquare metres (26,910 sq ft) and a permanent collection of 215 works, as well as temporary exhibits and a public auditorium.

The footing flooring of the museum holds 24 exhibit halls housing a fine international drove of paintings from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, together with the museum's fine art history library. The beginning floor's 8 exhibit halls comprise a collection of paintings by some of the nearly important 20th-century Argentine painters, including Antonio Berni, Ernesto de la Cárcova, Benito Quinquela Martín, Eduardo Sívori, Sarah Grilo, Alfredo Guttero, Raquel Forner, Xul Solar, Marcelo Pombo and Lino Enea Spilimbergo. The second floor'south two halls, completed in 1984, hold an exhibition of photographs and 2 sculpture terraces, besides as most of the institution'south authoritative and technical departments.

Gallery [edit]

Spanish Baroque, Saint Francis in Meditation, Zurbarán, 1632
Dutch Bizarre, Landscape with the Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Cuyp, 1645
Mexican Baroque, The Conquest of United mexican states. Tabular array Viii, Gonzales, 1696/1715
Argentine naturalism, A Stop in the Countryside, Pueyrredón, 1861
French naturalism, Portrait of Ernest Hoschedé and his daughter Martha, Manet, 1876
French Impressionism, The Banks of the Seine, Monet, 1880
Argentine naturalism, The Maid'due south Awakening, Sívori, 1887
Argentine naturalism, Interior view of Curuzú looked upstream, López, 1891
Argentine naturalism, The return of the malón, Della Valle, 1892
Argentine naturalism, Later on the Battle of Curupaytí, López, 1893
Argentine naturalism, Without breadstuff and without piece of work, Cárcova, 1894
French Impressionism, Dancers and Two Yellow Roses, Degas, 1898
Argentine Impressionism, The Haystacks (The Pampa of Today), Malharro, 1911
German symbolism, Batsheba, Stuck, 1912