L’articolo si concentra sulle vicende che portarono dalla Spagna agli Stati Uniti il patiooggi esposto all’ingresso della Thomas J. Watson Library nel Metropolitan Museum di New York. Commissionata all’inizio del XVI secolo per volontà di Pedro Fajardo y Chacón, l’imponente struttura venne venduta nel 1904 al mercante J. Goldberg: i marmi furono quindi spediti dall’Andalusia a Parigi e da lì, a distanza di pochi anni, inviati a Manhattan per decorare la residenza voluta dal banchiere George Blumenthal su Park Avenue. Nuove, numerose individuazioni archivistiche, assieme a inediti documenti fotografici, consentono di ricostruire le diverse fasi della suastoriacollezionistica, chiarendone la cronologia e individuando gli attori coinvolti nei diversi passaggi attraverso i quali l’opera giunse al di là dell’Oceano, per poi entrare, negli anni Quaranta, nelle raccolte del museo americano
The article focuses on the decisions and events that brought an important work of Spanish Renaissance architecture from Spain to the U.S.: the Vélez Blanco patio, today installed outside the entrance to the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Commissioned at the beginning of the 16thcentury by Pedro Fajardo y Chacón, the imposing structure was sold in 1904 by its legitimate owners to thedealer J. Goldberg. Subsequently, its marbles were shipped from Andalusia to Paris and, a few years later, to Manhattan, where it was installed in the Park Avenue house built by the banker George Blumenthal. Now, numerous new archival documents, together with unpublished photographs, allow us to accurately reconstruct the different phases of this complex history. In particular, they clarify the chronology of and the actors involved in the successive phases that brought the work across the Atlantic, up until it joined the collections of the Met during the Fourties.
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