Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano

About this audio guide

This guide to the Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano in São Paulo follows an engineer and his wife who spent years assembling pieces left behind by a fallen imperial court, down to a locket-sized copy of a constitution dated 1824. You'll hear about the paintings gathered along the way, from Frans Post's seventeenth-century landscapes to twentieth-century Brazilians like Portinari, Segall and Di Cavalcanti, and the bronzes Victor Brecheret placed around the grounds himself. It traces how the couple's home became a gift to the city.