Museu de Arte – San Paolo in Brazil
The São Paulo Museum of Art, abbreviated MASP, is the most important art museum in Latin America.
It was founded in 1947 by the journalist Assis Chateaubriand, amateur and art collector, and the art critic Pietro Maria Bardi; the museum is a private non-profit organization, and it is housed in a modern building designed by the architect Lina Bo Bardi.
The collection is mainly focused on European art, with the only exception of Brazilian art, and preserves objects of various kinds: in addition to sculptures and paintings from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, it is also possible to find archaeological finds and impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces, which are the the museum’s main pride.
