Museo de Arte de Ponce - Stairs II
by Richard Reeve
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Museo de Arte de Ponce - Stairs II
Artist
Richard Reeve
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Photograph - Photograph
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View of the stairs in the Art Museum, Ponce, Puerto Rico
The Museo de Arte de Ponce houses the most important collection of European art in Latin America, with the Financial Times of London claiming that the museum holds "one of the most distinguished private collections in the Western Hemisphere outside the United States." It has an important collection of almost 4,000 pieces of art that range from the 14th to the 20th century, Italian Baroque, British Pre-Raphaelite, Spanish Golden Age and contemporary Latin-American art.
Some of the artists whose paintings and works are exhibited at the museum are Peter Paul Rubens, Lucas Cranach, Bartolom� Esteban Murillo, Eugene Delacroix, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones, among others. The main masterpiece of the museum is the Flaming June, painted by Frederic Leighton. Ferr� bought this piece for $6,000 in London, and it was his favorite.
The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, the final masterpiece and crowning achievement of Sir Edward Burne-Jones is another of the main pieces of the museum's collection, originally acquired by Ferr� for just 1,600 British guineas in 1963. The enormous painting was started in 1881 and left unfinished at the artist's death in 1898.
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Comments (3)
Meg Shearer
Wonderful! What a fantastic building! You (almost) don't need the art! Beautiful shot! L/F!
Richard Reeve replied:
Thank you, Meg. I think the staff thought me odd for shooting the architecture :-)
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