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Monuments of Buenos Aires: Las Nereidas Fountain by Lola Mora


This magnificent fountain, located at the intersection of Tristan Achaval Rodriguez and Padre Mingone Avenues in Costanera Sur, Puerto Madero, is the work of Dolores Mora de Hernandez, better known as Lola Mora, an artist from Tucuman. Lola Mora was the first Argentinian and Latin American female sculptor. In 1889, she was awarded the first prize at the Universal Exhibition in Paris.




In 1900 Lola Mora offered to donate a piece of sculpture for the Argentine Government. The fountain was made in Lola Mora's workshop in Rome, first in its original size in plaster and then in Carrara Marble. Las Nereidas Fountain was originally placed at the new Plaza Colon, behind the Pink House in 1902. But the society of the time was terribly shocked by the nudity of the figures of Tritons, Nereids and the Venus goddess rising out of a sea shell, so in 1918 it was decided to move the entire fountain to its current location in Costanera Sur. Over time, the piece went from immoral to classic, and it was declared as a National Historic Monument. It is now protected from vandalism by a glass shield.
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Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture Ernesto de la Cárcova

The Museum of Reproductions and Comparative Sculpture “Ernesto de la Cárcova” was inaugurated in 1928, and named after the artist who was the founder and first director of the Fine Arts School and the National Academy of Fine Arts.
It is the oldest and most important museum of its kind in Latin America. Its value lies in the notable quality of the reproductions exhibited. The museum's collection is made up of die-cast copies or casts taken from the original pieces. Most of them, specially the ones from classic Greece, are first copies of the originals on exhibition at the British Museum, the Louvre, or L'Accademia in Florence.
This is one of the least visited museums in Buenos Aires, but one of the most important in terms of the value of its collections.

The Museum is divided into three rooms organized in a chronological order:

On the center of the first room, the imposing actual size figure of Michelangelo Buonarotti's "David" is surrounded by the "Slave"; Lorenzo de Medici "Il pensieroso"; "Moses" and the "Pieta", among other works from the Renaissance period.




The second room is mainly dedicated to Greek art, including the "Winged Victory of Samothrace"; the "Venus de Milo"; Apolonio's "Belvedere Torso"; sculptural groups from the Parthenon, that can be seen at the British Museum; “Afrodita and Dione”; “Ilisos”, and other classic Greek sculptures friezes.

The third room presents Egyptian, Assyrian, Indian and Pre Hispanic American art. On the wall, the "Zodiac of Dendera" is one of the most important pieces in the museum.

Museo de Calcos y Escultura Comparada "Ernesto de la Cárcova”
Location: Avda. España 1701 & Elvira Rawson de Dellepianne. Costanera Sur. Buenos Aires.

Opening hours: 
Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
National Holidays Closed.
Entrance: Voluntary contribution of AR$ 500 
For more information visit Museo de la Cárcova official website.
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Coleccion de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat


The "Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat" houses one of the most outstanding art collections in Buenos Aires, and should be added to the must-see list of any person visiting Buenos Aires.

It originated from the private collection of Mrs. Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, one of the wealthiest women in Argentina, and an avid collector of artworks from different periods by national and international authors.

The collection is made up of over two hundred artworks and objects, organized into two main cores, according to their provenance: the first presents a visit through Argentinean art, and the second, great masters of international art.

Some of the most outstanding works in the Argentinian Art exhibition area are: "Apartando en el corral" (Sorting in the Corral) and "Los Capataces" (The Overseers), by Prilidiano Pueyrredón; "La resistencia" (Resistance) and "El indeciso" (The Indecisive One) by Emilio Pettoruti; "El almuerzo" (The Lunch) by Antonio Berni. The rest of the collection features outstanding works by many great Argentinian painters, like Carlos Alonso, Libero Badii, Juan Battle Planas, Fernando Fader, Xul Solar, Leopoldo Presas, Guillermo Roux, among others.

There's also a section exclusively dedicated to international art, with works by great masters from different periods, among them: Peter Brueghel II, with his piece "El censo en Belén" (The Census in Bethlehem); Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema; Marc Chagall; Salvador Dali; Jean-Baptiste Greuze; Auguste Rodin; Andy Warhol and his portrait of Mrs Fortabat; and Joseph Mallord William Turner, with "Juliet and her Nurse", the most outstanding piece in the collection and one of the highlights of the visit.

The building that houses the Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat was especially designed Architect Rafael Viñoly. Its exhibition spaces and public, private and service areas are distributed on six rectangular floors, and the entire complex is oriented parallel to the Dock. The ground floor is divided into two sectors, with a large entrance hall, an auditorium for lectures, and the cafe. The first and second floors are visible from outside the building and are crowned by a curved arch of glass and steel fitted with enormous aluminum sunshades, movable panels that allow the interior illumination of the upper floors to be controlled by way of an automatic aperture mechanism. The floors below ground level extend further and have been constructed on a monumental scale.

Address: Olga Cossettini 141. Puerto Madero
Opening hours: Thursday through Sunday: 12 noon to 8 pm
Admission:
General: AR$4,000.
Reduced fee for children under 12, senior citizens, students and educators with ID: AR$2,000.-
Thursdays: General admission AR$2,000 and free for children under 12, senior citizens, students and educators with ID

Website: www.coleccionfortabat.org.ar
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Neighborhoods of Buenos Aires: Puerto Madero


Puerto Madero is the newest and fastest growing neighborhood in Buenos Aires. At the end of the 19th century, Buenos Aires was a very busy harbor, from where ships loaded with grains departed to the rest of the world, and many other ships arrived with immigrants, mainly from pre-war European countries. It was then necessary the construction of large silos, deposits and docks. Large four-storey red brick docks were built by the Wayss & Freytag company, that were used as deposits for grains before they were loaded onto the ships.





Over the years those docks were abandoned as the activity of the harbor ceased. In the decade of 1990s, a project determined to restore and urbanize the area, as was the case with the docks in London.
The docks were first recycled into office buildings and restaurants, and then the construction of apartment buildings started, giving birth to a new neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Today there are a number of high rise buildings under construction on the east side, that add to those already inaugurated.
This is an ideal location for its proximity to Plaza de Mayo and the center of Buenos Aires, and at the same time for its many restaurants, bars, cafes, and its natural environment. It is one of the most expensive areas in Buenos Aires, and there´s a great offer of apartments for rent, all of them very new and with a modern style.

Attractions:
Frigate Museum Pte. Sarmiento.
Ecological Reserve
Calatrava´s Bridge of the Woman.
“Las Nereidas” Fountain, by Lola Mora
Coleccion Fortabat Museum, Olga Cosentini 141
Museum of Reproductions and Comparative  Sculptures Ernesto de la Carcova
Neighborhoods Puerto Madero Where to Stay
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