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The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia was awarded to Spanish architect, educator, critic, and theoretician Rafael Moneo. Selected by the Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, upon recommendation of the Curator of the Biennale Architettura 2021, Hashim Sarkis, the acknowledgment will be awarded to the architect on Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 together with the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
in memoriam to Lina Bo Bardi.
The first-ever Spanish architect to receive the Pritzker Prize, Rafael Moneo (Tudela, Spain,1937) is famous for his contextual buildings and commitment to modernist stylings. Attracted initially to philosophy and painting rather than architecture, he was influenced by his father - an industrial designer – to pursue a career in architecture. Graduated in 1961 from the Escuela Técnica Superior of Madrid, the architect worked during his early years with the ar
Spain Will Pay Heiress Carmen Cervera $7.9 Million a Year to Keep Her Art Collection in the Country for the Next 15 Years
Works by Rodin, Gauguin, and Van Gogh are part of the $1 billion collection.
Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. Photo by Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images.
The Spanish culture ministry has made a deal with the art collector and socialite Carmen Cervera that will see her collection of some 400 artworks remain in the country for the next 15 years.
The artworks, which include paintings and sculptures by artists including Brueghel the Elder, Vincent Van Gogh, and Auguste Rodin, have been valued at around €1.04 billion ($1.3 billion). They will remain provisionally at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, where they have been on loan since 1999.