GALLERIA NAZIONALE D'ARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA
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Gallery, in a beautiful palace, housing a remarkable collection of paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Founded in 1881, the National Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a monumental palace of neoclassical inspiration and Liberty style designed by the architect Cesare Bazzani. When you arrive from the park of Villa Borghese, you are impressed by the grandeur and elegance of this building. This beautiful gallery offers a chronological tour of Italian and international painting and sculpture of the 19th and 20th centuries. The didactic approach with an interesting presentation of the works by regional trends is to be commended. The
southwest wing is dedicated to the nineteenth century, from the Napoleonic era to Italian Unity, with paintings and sculptures of the neoclassical school (Hercules and Lichas
by Canova), the Romantic school and the regional schools of the period.The southeast wing is dedicated to the end of the 19th century and thus to the celebration of the Risorgimento with Fattori, Cammarano, Signorini and Segantini. In the veranda overlooking the garden you can find works of the Roman school, the group of Italians in Paris (Boldini, De Nittis Troubetzkoy and Medardo Rosso), the great masters (Courbet, Rodin, Degas, Van Gogh and one of Monet's Nymphéas
) as well as a large number of pointillist paintings.The northeast wing is devoted to the first half of the 20th century. On display are donations by Balla, Guttuso, De Chirico and Schwarz (the latter includes works by Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Breton); works of Futurism and abstract art from the 1930s and 1940s; Carrà, Sironi, Morandi; the Roman school (Scipio, Mafai, Pirandello); De Pisis and the Aeropittori
group; and the expressionist Potere group. Thenorthwest wing
isdedicated to European informal art, American abstract expressionism of the 1950s and 1960s (Pollock, Tapies, Fautrier, Hartung, Burri, Capogrossi, Fontana, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mastroianni) and post-informal (Festa, Schifano, Angeli
).In the courtyard, the corridors and on the second floor, temporary exhibitions and interesting artistic and literary meetings are organized.
In summary, among the works not to be missed during your visit: The Three Ages by Gustave Klimt, The Gardener by Van Gogh, one of Monet's Water Lilies and a bust of a woman in bronze by Auguste Rodin.
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