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Puerto Rico Ilustrado/El Mundo Building (Spanish: Edificio El Mundo/Puerto Rico Ilustrado) is a historic Art Deco high-rise building located in the Old San Juan historic district of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The building was erected in 1923 to serve as the headquarters of the El Mundo newspaper and the Puerto Rico Ilustrado magazine. [1]
Puerto Rico Ilustrado was a weekly magazine in Puerto Rico. Its first issue was published 6 March 1910 in San Juan, Puerto Rico , with Juan M. Saavedra as administrator. [ 7 ] The final issue of Puerto Rico Ilustrado as an independent publication was número 2227, published 27 December 1952.
September 22, 1977 (1 Ponce de León Ave. San Juan Antiguo: Beaux Arts casino building from 1917, used as an officers' club, music school, cultural headquarters, reception hall and event venue by the United States Army and the government of Puerto Rico throughout its history.
Pages in category "Art Deco architecture in Puerto Rico" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
José Campeche y Jordán [note 1] (December 23, 1751 – November 7, 1809), is the first known Puerto Rican visual artist and considered by art critics as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas. Campeche y Jordán loved to use colors that referenced the landscape of Puerto Rico, as well as the social and political crème de la crème ...
Puerto Rican art is the diverse historic collection of visual and hand-crafted arts originating from the island. The art of the Puerto Ricans (Spanish: puertorriqueños or boricuas) draws from the various cultural traditions of the indigenous Taino people, as well as the history of the island as the subject of various other nations.
Galería Nacional (National Gallery) located in Old San Juan within the historic colonial section of the capital of Puerto Rico, houses the largest collection of Puerto Rican paintings from the eighteenth century to the 1960s.
Figueroa Apartments, better known today as the Pinto-Lugo & Rivera Building (Spanish: Edificio Pinto-Lugo y Rivera), is a historic Art Deco-style building located in the Isla Grande district of Santurce in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico.