Rescuing an interesting and curious article from the 1950s Photo Magazine referring to Spain in the Heart of New York, the Hispanic Society of America, the work of the illustrious and prodigal American Hispanicist Mr. Huntington, raised that wonderful Escorial, which is perhaps the most complete art museum in America, erected in 1904 in the Manhatan district, according to the columnist Federico de Urrutia, from Madrid.
The building –museum of the Hispanic Society Of America-, whose pro-Hispanic activities group more than One Hundred thousand Works, encloses within its walls the great works of Sorolla, Murillo, Rivera, Zurbarán, Goya,… etc.
Also innumerable codices, facsimiles, files, manuscripts and bibliographic works counted by thousands of volumes of the Colombian library from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Among its rooms you can see the treasures of our ceramic art that keep its showcases, all the genuinely Spanish art and culture.
Recognizing our hero patron the spirit and the Catholic projection of Spain as something consubstantial with his own entrance, he not only wanted to make history in Spain but also make known to his fellow American citizens the dimension of our history by raising a monument to medieval Spain, symbolized by the equestrian statue of the Cid Campeador, as an affirmation of our race and as a reminder that Spain was Spain long before the birth of Christopher Columbus. The Spaniards who have visited the immense New York anthill have been able to feel the joy of Spain and the pride of our nationality, against other American citizens who insist on ignoring what the name of Spain represents for Civilization, in the long process of the history.
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