National Museum of Fine Arts
Grand fine-arts collection built largely from private donations, housed inside a former nineteenth-century pumping station.
This guide to Buenos Aires's National Museum of Fine Arts follows a single Tiepolo canvas back to Paris in eighteen forty-five, where a debt-ridden Spanish court painter had to sell off his collection. You'll hear how the buyer, an Argentine exile named Manuel Jose de Guerrico, built his own fortune managing the money of General Jose de San Martin while living abroad. It traces how Guerrico's private taste for French, Spanish, Italian and Flemish art eventually passed down through his family. Look for the Tiepolo itself among the museum's Old World rooms before moving toward the modern collection.
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