A report on Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) and Plaza San Martín (Buenos Aires)

Facade of the museum in 2017
Location within Buenos Aires

Bird's-eye view of Plaza San Martín in 2018.

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

View of Plaza San Martín in 1920, when the Argentine Pavilion (left) still graced the park as an art museum

Flemish Renaissance, The Birth of Virgin Mary, Oostanen, late 15th or early 16th century

Monument to José de San Martín, the plaza namesake.

Flemish Baroque, Allegory of Fortune and Virtue, Rubens, 17th century

Monumento a los caídos en Malvinas (Monument for the fallen in the Falklands War) is located in Plaza San Martin

Flemish Baroque, Portrait of Margarita Gonzaga, Pourbus (the Younger), 1603

Spanish Baroque, An astronomer, Ribera, 1617–1652

Spanish Baroque, Saint Francis in Meditation, Zurbarán, 1632

Dutch Baroque, Portrait of Young Woman, Rembrandt, 1634

Dutch Baroque, Landscape with the Ruins of the Abbey of Rijnsburg, Cuyp, 1645

Mexican Baroque, The Conquest of Mexico. Table VIII, Gonzales, 1696/1715

Scottish academic art, Master Cathcart and Dog, Raeburn, 1810

Argentine naturalism, Portrait of Manuelita Rosas, Pueyrredón, 1851

Argentine naturalism, A Stop in the Countryside, Pueyrredón, 1861

French naturalism, The Surprised Nymph, Manet, 1861

French Impressionism, The Bridge of Argenteuil, Monet, 1875

French naturalism, Portrait of Ernest Hoschedé and his daughter Martha, Manet, 1876

French Impressionism, The Banks of the Seine, Monet, 1880

Portrait of Suzanne Valadon, 1885, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

French Impressionism, Le Moulin de la Galette, Van Gogh, 1886–1887

Argentine naturalism, The Maid's Awakening, Sívori, 1887

French academic art, The First Mourning, Bouguereau, 1888

Argentine naturalism, Interior view of Curuzú looked upstream, López, 1891

Argentine naturalism, The return of the malón, Della Valle, 1892

Argentine naturalism, After the Battle of Curupaytí, López, 1893

Argentine naturalism, Without bread and without work, Cárcova, 1894

French Impressionism, Dancers and Two Yellow Roses, Degas, 1898

Argentine symbolism, Nocturnal, Malharro, 1910

Argentine Impressionism, The Haystacks (The Pampa of Today), Malharro, 1911

Argentine Post-Impressionism, The Presentation, Thibon de Libian, 1918

Argentine return to order, Annunciation, Guttero, 1928

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.

- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)

The park was the site in 1909 of the inaugural of both the first premier hotel in Argentina (the Plaza) and of the new National Museum of Fine Arts, for which the glass and steel pavilion used at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris was enlisted; structurally inadequate, the pavilion was demolished in 1932, however.

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Buenos Aires

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Capital and primate city of Argentina.

Our Lady of Buen Aire in front of the National Migration Department

Juan de Garay founding Buenos Aires in 1580. The initial settlement, founded by Pedro de Mendoza, had been abandoned since 1542.

Aldus verthoont hem de stadt Buenos Ayrros geleegen in Rio de la Plata, painting by a Dutch sailor who anchored at the port around 1628.

Emeric Essex Vidal, General view of Buenos Ayres from the Plaza de Toros, 1820. In this area now lies the Plaza San Martín.

Impression of the Buenos Aires Cathedral by Carlos Pellegrini, 1829.

Construction of the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on the 9 de Julio Avenue, 1936.

Catalinas Norte is an important business complex composed of nineteen commercial office buildings and occupied by numerous leading Argentine companies, foreign subsidiaries, and diplomatic offices. It is located in the Retiro and San Nicolás neighborhoods.

Satellite view of the Greater Buenos Aires area, and the Río de la Plata.

Heavy rain and thunderstorm in Plaza San Martin. Thunderstorms are usual during the summer.

The Buenos Aires City Hall in the right corner of the entrance to the Avenida de Mayo

Metropolitan Police of Buenos Aires City

The Immigrants' Hotel, constructed in 1906, received and assisted the thousands of immigrants arriving to the city. The hotel is now a National Museum.

Villa 31, a villa miseria in Buenos Aires

The Metropolitan Cathedral is the main Catholic church in the city.

The Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, the main stock exchange and financial center of Argentina.

Headquarters of the National Bank of Argentina, the national bank and the largest in the country's banking sector.

Buenos Aires Bus, the city's tourist bus service. The official estimate is that the bus carries between 700 and 800 passengers per day, and has carried half a million passengers since its opening.

Monument to the Carta Magna and Four Regions of Argentina in the neighborhood of Palermo

The Centro Cultural Kirchner (Kirchner Cultural Center), located at the former Central Post Office, is the largest of Latin America.

Homage to Buenos Aires, a mural located at the Carlos Gardel station of the Buenos Aires Underground. It represents a typical scene from the city and several of its icons, such as singer Carlos Gardel, the Obelisco, the port, tango dancing and the Abasto market.

The interior of El Ateneo Grand Splendid, a celebrated bookstore located in the barrio of Recoleta.

Tango dancers during the World tango dance tournament.

A screening at Parque Centenario, as part of the 2011 edition of BAFICI

A fashion show at the Planetarium in 2013, as part of BAFWEEK.

View of Bolívar Street facing the Cabildo and Diagonal Norte, on Buenos Aires' historical center. The city's characteristic convergence of diverse architectural styles can be seen, including Spanish Colonial, Beaux-Arts and modernist architecture.

Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, a public high school in Buenos Aires, and it is one of the most prestigious in Argentina and Latin America.

University of Buenos Aires' Law School in Recoleta

A Mitre Line Trenes Argentinos train in Retiro railway station

Map of the Greater Buenos Aires Commuter Rail Network

200 Series rolling stock at San José de Flores station, Buenos Aires Underground.

Buquebus high-speed ferries connect Buenos Aires to Uruguay

Campo Argentino de Polo, home of the Argentine Open Polo Championship, the most important global event of this discipline

La Bombonera during a night game of Copa Libertadores between Boca Juniors v. Colo Colo.

Plaza San Martín is a park located in the city's neighborhood of Retiro. Situated at the northern end of pedestrianized Florida Street, the park is bounded by Libertador Ave. (N), Maipú St. (W), Santa Fe Avenue (S), and Leandro Alem Av. (E).

The barrios of Palermo and Recoleta are the city's traditional bastions in the diffusion of art, although in recent years there has been a tendency of appearance of exhibition venues in other districts such as Puerto Madero or La Boca; renowned venues include MALBA, the National Museum of Fine Arts, Fundación Proa, Faena Arts Center, and the Usina del Arte.

Florida Street

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Popular shopping street in Downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 1969, shortly before becoming a promenade.

Florida Street runs northwards for approximately one kilometer to Plaza San Martín, in the Retiro area.

The monumental building, designed by Roland le Vacher in 1888 to house the Au Bon Marché shops, also housed the National Museum of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1910, and thereafter the head office of the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway; restored in 1991, its grand interiors also feature ceiling frescoes by Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Castagnino, and other famed Argentine painters.