Sao Paulo Museum of Art
Overview
Assis Chateaubriand's bold museum on Paulista Avenue, floated on red pillars by Lina Bo Bardi above a plaza. The glass easels Bo Bardi designed hang paintings in open air. The most important collection of European art in the southern hemisphere: Raphael, Velazquez, Van Gogh, and Brazilian modernism.
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