{"id":4177,"date":"2013-03-05T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2013-03-05T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:16:00","slug":"496-familia-david-costaguta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"496. familia david costaguta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201302D12.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Costaguta\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local entrepreneur <strong>David Costaguta<\/strong> made most of his fortune from the manufacture &amp; sale of textiles between Argentina &amp; Europe at the end of the 19th century. Like most <em>nouveau riche<\/em> in Buenos Aires at that time, Costaguta decided to use his wealth to play around in the real estate market. But where to buy??<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Plaza Lavalle<\/strong> underwent drastic change just as Costaguta looked to develop. The lot occupied today by the <strong>Teatro Col\u00f3n<\/strong> originally held a train station&#8230; the terminus for the first railway built in the nation. In 1890 the station moved further west to Once, tracks were removed &amp; the new opera house built in the same spot. Army barracks were likewise demolished to make room for a new Supreme Court (<strong>Tribunales<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200510C09.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Plaza Lavalle, Palacio Costaguta, Alfred Mass\u00fce, Art Nouveau\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Costaguta bought the lot next to Tribunales &amp; hired French architect <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arquitectos-franceses-argentina.blogspot.com.ar\/search\/label\/Arquitecto%20Alfred%20Mass\u00fce\">Alfred Mass\u00fce<\/a><\/strong> to design a four-story building destined for both business &amp; residential use. Work finished in 1907, &amp; the <strong>Palacio Costaguta<\/strong> became another focal point for the plaza. Its tower &amp; dome are still one of the most recognized pieces of Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires&#8230; even though a large portion of the building was demolished in 1988 &amp; replaced with a rather horrific, glass office tower. Fortunately the <a href=\"http:\/\/200.69.147.118\/fototeca\/index.php?_expresion_de_busqueda=edificios+comerciales&amp;campo=keywords&amp;termino=&amp;idItem=3171&amp;pag=3\">Banco Fotogr\u00e1fico Digital<\/a> run by the National Library contains a photo of Mass\u00fce&#8217;s masterpiece before modification:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/costaguta.jpg\" alt=\"Buenos Aires, Plaza Lavalle, Palacio Costaguta, Alfred Mass\u00fce, Art Nouveau\" width=\"339\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Costaguta&#8217;s tomb supposedly dates from 1907, but the architect responsible is unknown. The statue of a woman in mourning &amp; two back relief panels (both unsigned!) are wonderful works of art. Hopefully more information will come to light in the future about the artists involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201302D13.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Costaguta\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"alert\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Like Art Nouveau?<\/strong> Learn about the architects of the era, their individual styles &amp; what makes Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires so unique with a 33-page guide from our sister site, <a href=\"http:\/\/endlessmile.com\/project\/art-nouveau\/\">Endless Mile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local entrepreneur David Costaguta made most of his fortune from the manufacture &amp; sale of textiles between Argentina &amp; Europe at the end of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4177\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">496. familia david costaguta<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-architecture","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}