Museums in Santiago Chile Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts
 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes | |
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| Established | 1880 |
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| Location | Santiago, Chile |
| Visitors | 386,714 (2009)[1] |
| Director | Fernando Pérez Oyarzún |
| Website | http://world wide web.mnba.cl/ |
The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes or MNBA ), located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880 (making it the oldest in South America), the arrangement is managed past the "Artistic Union" (Unión Artística).
The electric current building, the "Palace of the Fine Arts" (el Palacio de Bellas Artes), dates to 1910 and commemorates the first centennial of the Independence of Chile. It was designed by the Chilean builder Emile Jéquier in a total-blown Beaux-arts style and is situated in the Parque Forestal of Santiago. Behind it is located the Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo) of the University of Chile, in which is also located the old School of Fine Arts (Escuela de Bellas Artes).
History [edit]
Foundational Plate of the National Museum of Fine Arts
The museum was officially founded on September 18, 1880, and originally named Museo National de Pinturas (National Painting Museum).
The president of Republic of chile, Don Aníbal Pinto, the minister Don Manuel García de la Huerta, Marcos Segundo Maturana and the sculptor José Miguel Blanco together managed the creation of the museum, whose beginning director was the painter Juan Mochi.
In 1887 the government acquired a building known as "the Parthenon", which had been synthetic by the Artistic Wedlock for the purpose of hosting annual art expositions. The museum moved in that location and changed its proper noun to Museum of Fine Art.
In 1901 the government decided to create an original edifice for the Museum and Schoolhouse of Fine Arts, and Emilio Jéquier was selected. The building was built in the Parque Forestal, a landscaping piece of work past Jorge Enrique Dubois, who had been trained in the gardening schoolhouse of Versailles in France.
Upon the completion of the building, it was officially inaugurated on September 21, 1910, as part of an International Exposition which formed function of the celebrations for the centennial of independence. The Museum has remained in the "Palace" ever since.
The edifice was damaged during the 1960 Chilean Earthquake, subsequently which information technology was seismically upgraded, such that damage during the 2010 Chile earthquake was confined to fallen elements of the exterior.
Architecture [edit]
The Palacio de Bellas Artes, the electric current home of the Museum, is in the Neoclassical Second Empire style and the Bizarre Revival style, strongly reinforced with Art Nouveau details and touches of metallic structural architecture. The central entrance is through a gigantically enlarged version of Borromini'southward false-perspective window reveals from Palazzo Barberini, which encloses a pedimented doorway entirely surrounded by glass, a Beaux-Arts bear on. Through a broken pediment the squared cupola rises to the top. The internal layout and the facade are both modelled after the Petit Palais of Paris. The drinking glass cupola that crowns the primal hall was designed and manufactured in Belgium and brought to Chile in 1907. The guess weight of the armour of the museum is 115,000 kg, of the glass of the cupola, 2,400 kg.
Architectonically, the floorplan of the museum is one of a central axis marked by the entrance and a grand hall with a staircase to the second floor. In the grand hall, higher up a balcony from the second floor, at that place is a carving in loftier relief which depicts two angels supporting a shield. They are located in the semivault higher up the heads of 2 Caryatids that arise from the balustrade, carved by Antonio Coll y Pi.
References [edit]
- ^ "Servicios 2004-2009". Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos. Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
External links [edit]
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
- Virtual Bout in 360° view of Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes | Flip360
Coordinates: 33°26′7.15″S 70°38′36.81″W / 33.4353194°S 70.6435583°West / -33.4353194; -70.6435583
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_National_Museum_of_Fine_Arts
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