The Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum ( es, Museo de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino) is an art

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

in the city of Rosario, , considered the most important of the interior of the country and the second in national terms. It is administered by the municipal government. The museum lies within the

Parque de la Independencia The ''Parque de la Independencia'' (Independence Park) is a large public park in Rosario, . It is located near the geographical center of the city, its limits defined by Moreno Street and three important avenues: Pellegrini Avenue, Ovidio ...

(the largest of Rosario's urban parks) immediately outside the city center, at the intersection of

Oroño Boulevard Oroño Boulevard (in Spanish, ''Bulevar Oroño'') is a street in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. It is a two-way boulevard that runs north–south through the center-east of the city, from the coastal avenue by the Paraná River to the sou ...

and Pellegrini Avenue. The building was a project by architects Hilarión Hernández Larguía and Juan Manuel Newton and opened in 1936. It was donated to the Municipality by Mrs. Rosa Tiscornia de Castagnino in memory of her late son Juan Bautista Castagnino, an important art critic and collector at the time, and officially inaugurated as a museum on 7 December 1937. The museum has two floors, totalling 35 rooms with 700 linear meters available for exhibitions. The initial artistic patrimony of the museum was gathered from donations by private collectors, plus the patrimony of the former Municipal Fine Arts Museum, and then augmented by purchases by the municipality and the museum Foundation. It now consists of more than 3,000 works, comprising European art, Argentine art of the 19th and 20th century, and works by Rosario artists until the 1930s. The

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic co ...

collection (about 300 works acquired in more recent times) was moved to a new museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario (''MACRo''), opened in 2004.

Gallery

Image:Anonimo, s. XVI - La Virgen y el Niño Jesús.jpg, Anonymous Italian painter. ''Virgin and Child'', 16th century. Image:Maarten van Heemskerck - Autorretrato.jpg,

Maarten van Heemskerck Maarten van Heemskerck or ''Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen'' (1 June 1498 - 1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher's Ital ...

. ''Self Portrait'', 16th century. Image:Luca Giordano - San Lucas pintando a la Virgen.jpg,

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Earl ...

. ''Saint Luke painting the Virgin'', circa. 1660–1665. Image:Constant Troyon - Vaca perseguida por un can.jpg,

Constant Troyon Constant Troyon (August 28, 1810 – February 21, 1865) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. In the early part of his career he painted mostly landscapes. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his ''métier'' as a pa ...

. ''Cow chased by a dog'', date unknown. Image:Alfred Sisley - Village de Saint Mammès, c. 1898.jpg,

Alfred Sisley Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedicatio ...

. ''Village of Saint Mammès'', circa. 1898. Image:Eduardo Schiaffino - Desnudo, 1888.jpg,

Eduardo Schiaffino Eduardo Schiaffino (1858-1935) was an Argentine painter, critic, intellectual and historian. A member of a group known as the ''Generation of '80'', he founded the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and sparked the development of pai ...

. ''Naked'', 1888. Image:Jorge Bermudez - Riña de gallos, 1917.jpg, Jorge Bermudez. ''Rooster'', 1917. Image:Alfredo Guttero - Retrato del pintor Victorica, 1929.jpg, Alfredo Guttero. ''Portrait of a Victorian Painter'', 1929.

External links

Official website
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Works and sites of patrimonial value
of the municipality of Rosario {{Authority control Museums in Rosario, Santa Fe Art museums and galleries in Argentina