Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta
Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta | |
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| Established | October 12, 1962 |
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| Location | 2291 Juramento Street Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Type | Art museum |
| Visitors | 40,000 annually |
| Director | Mercedes Picot |
| Architect | Ernesto Bunge [1] |
| Owner | Buenos Aires City |
| Website | buenosaires.gob.ar/museolarreta |
The Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta is a museum of Spanish art located in the Belgrano ward of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Overview
The museum resulted from the purchase by the city of the Buenos Aires home of
Larreta died in 1961, and his family sold his home and its collections to the City of Buenos Aires for its conversion into the Museum of Spanish Art. The museum was inaugurated in 1962, and named in his honor. Its collections were enriched further by the 1977 transfer of portions of the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Hispanic Art.[1]
The former Larreta home, designed by Argentine architect Ernesto Bunge,
The extensive gardens feature
Gallery
References
- ^ a b Museo Larreta: Historia (in Spanish) Archived 2010-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Acceder: Documentos privados y manuscritos: Museo Enrique Larreta (in Spanish) Archived 2010-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Museo Enrique Larreta on El Ojo del Arte
- ^ La Nación: El museo Larreta, un refugio para el arte hispánico (in Spanish)
- ^ Incollá, Nani. Guía Patrimonio Cultural de Buenos Aires. Dirección General de Patrimonio.
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