TY - JOUR AU - Sánchez Cabra, Efraín PY - 2003/09/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Gold Museum JF - Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico JA - Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico VL - 40 IS - 64 SE - Varia DO - UR - https://publicaciones.banrepcultural.org/index.php/boletin_cultural/article/view/1007 SP - 123-139 AB - On 22 december 1939, the Banco de la República, the Central Bank of Colombia, purchased a 23.5 centimetres high pre-Columbian gold arte fact weighing 777·7 grams that was to become the Gold M useum's foundation stone. Described as a Quimbaya poporo, it is a masterpiece of pre-Hispanic goldwork, an object of beauty whose brightly burnished body and neck, crowned with four sphere-like or naments, rest on an exquisite cast metal tiligree base and which seems to ftoat in a space of its own. The beholder cannot but leap up in amazement, and feel joy and admiration for those who made it. ER -