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Boncompagni Ludovisi Decorative Arts Museum (''Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le arti decorative'', often abbreviated as the Museo Boncompagni),

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, is the Decorative Arts Museum of the National Gallery of Modern Art of Rome. The Museum is located at Via Boncompagni, 18, near the elegant and historical

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History

Opened in 1995 to promote and develop the Italian

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and

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, Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum is located in the Villino Boncompagni, an

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

villa, built in the early years of the twentieth century. The “Villino Boncompagni” was donated in 1972 by the

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ss Blanceflor de Bildt Boncompagni to the

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to promote

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and

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. After the restoration of the building, carried out in the eighties, the “Villino” was given by the Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo, MiBACT (Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage) at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rome.

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artists

Galileo Chini Galileo Chini (2 December 1873 - 23 August 1956) was an Italian decorator, designer, painter, and potter. A prominent member of the Italian Liberty style movement, or Italian Art Nouveau, he taught decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti ...

(1873 – 1956) and

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(1878 – 1947) created a number of panels in 1914 for the Venice Hotel Terminus called "La Primavera" and "Mille e una notte", which were influened by

Gustav Klimt Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's prim ...

's style who exhibited at the 1910

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. These were later exhibited in the museum.

Organization

Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum collects

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and original

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of the “Villino Boncompagni” and

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s coming from the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna of Rome. It houses about eight hundred pieces

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and

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illustrating the

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history and showing the debut of the Italian fashion, at the beginning of the 1900 to reach its extreme results of recent decades. The Museum also hosts temporary

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and

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Exhibitions

Tristano di Robilant. (2007)La danza fotografica da Luciano Usai. (2008)Pino Procopio, Ulisse, Scene da un viaggio. (2008)Arnaldo Ginna Futurista. (2009)Lo zoo di Pinocchio. Galleria di ritratti dei personaggi-animali. Disegni di Filippo Sassoli. (2009)Rolando Monti - Dal tonalismo all'astrazione lirica. (2010)Fernanda Gattinoni. Moda e stelle ai tempi della Hollywood sul Tevere. (2011)Falsi ma Belli. (2011)Palma Bucarelli. La Palma della bellezza. (2012)Zecchin - Cambellotti e Le Mille e una notte. (2013)Joseph Pace, L'Eva Futura. (2014)Lydia Predominato, Una via d'uscita per un cuore costretto. (2014)Libri d'Artista, L'Arte da Leggere. (2021)Direzione dei Musei statali di Roma. Libri d'Artista, L'Arte da Leggere. (2021)

References

External links

Official website (archived)Direzione musei statali - Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le Arti Decorative
{{authority control Art museums and galleries in Rome Decorative arts museums Rome R. XVII Sallustiano National museums of Italy