The Galleria d'Arte Moderna is a modern art museum in
Milan
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, in
Lombardy
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in northern Italy. It is housed in the
Villa Reale, at Via Palestro 16, opposite the
Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli
Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli ("Indro Montanelli Public Gardens"), formerly known as Giardini Pubblici and Giardini di Porta Venezia (and renamed after journalist and writer Indro Montanelli in 2002) are a major and historic city park in Mi ...
. The collection consists largely of Italian and European works from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
The museum has works by
Francesco Filippini
Francesco Filippini (18 September 1853 – 6 March 1895) was an Italian painter from Lombardy. He was much influenced by Tranquillo Cremona.
Life
Filippini was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy, on 18 September 1853, into a p ...
,
Giuseppe Ferrari,
Giovanni Fattori
Giovanni Fattori (September 6, 1825August 30, 1908) was an Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. He was initially a painter of historical themes and military subjects. In his middle years, inspired by the Barbi ...
,
Silvestro Lega
Silvestro Lega (8 December 1826 – 21 September 1895) was an Italian realist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli and was also involved with the Mazzini movement.
Biography
He was born in Modigliana, near Forlì, to a ...
,
Giovanni Boldini
Giovanni Boldini (31 December 1842 – 11 January 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in ''Time'' magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" becaus ...
,
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2 ...
,
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
Born ...
,
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinct fr ...
,
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavour to a ...
,
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
,
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, ...
,
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (, ; 19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian painter and sculptor. He helped shape the revolutionary aesthetic of the Futurism movement as one of its principal figures. Despite his short life, his approach ...
,
Francesco Hayez
Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...
,
Giovanni Segantini
Giovanni Segantini (15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899) was an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps. He was one of the most famous artists in Europe in the late 19th century, and his paintings were collected by ...
,
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.
Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist techniq ...
and
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists,. his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the cl ...
, among others. Works have been donated by Milanese families including the Treves, Ponti, Grassi and Vismara.
After the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
the twentieth-century works in the collection were moved to the
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea
The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a museum of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. It is on via Palestro, next to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and across from the Giardini Pubblici Indro Montanelli.
History
In 1947 the Municipality o ...
, built in 1955 on the site of the former stables of the palace, which had been destroyed by wartime bombing.
In 2011 some works were moved to the
Museo del Novecento
The Museo del Novecento ("museum of the twentieth century") is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city.
The muse ...
; these included ''Bambina che corre sul balcone'' by
Giacomo Balla
Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his paintings he depicted light, movement and speed. He was concerned with expressing movement in his works, ...
(1912), ''Uomo che dorme'' by
Renato Guttuso
Renato Guttuso (26 December 1911 – 18 January 1987) was an Italian painter and politician. His best-known works include ''Flight from Etna'' (1938–39), ''Crucifixion'' (1941) and ''La Vucciria'' (1974). Guttuso also designed for the theatre ( ...
(1938) and ''
The Fourth Estate'' by
Pellizza da Volpedo (1901).
The museum holds some temporary exhibitions; in 2008 works by
Tino Sehgal
Tino is an Italian name or nickname, often a diminutive of the names Agostino, Costantino, Martino, Antonino, Valentino, Giustino, Sabatino, Faustino, and other names ending in -tino.
Tino may refer to:
People Given name
* Tino Ausenda (1 ...
were presented.
Principal works
The principal works in the collection include:
* Francesco Hayez: ''
Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni
''Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni'' is an 1841 oil on canvas portrait of Alessandro Manzoni by Francesco Hayez, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera
The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, It ...
'', 1841; ''Penitent Mary Magdalene'', 1833; ''
'', 1858; ''
Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca
''Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca'' is an 1851 oil on canvas painting by Francesco Hayez, now in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan, to which it was given in 1893 by Carlo Weber.
Born Matilde Branca into a family of musicians, she became a si ...
'', 1851
* Giovanni Segantini: ''Le due madri'', 1889; ''L'angelo della vita'', 1894
* Umberto Boccioni: ''La madre'', 1907
* Giacomo Balla: ''Espansione per velocità (Velocità d'automobile)'', 1913-14: ''Morbidezze di primavera'', 1918
*
Giuseppe De Nittis
Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 – August 21, 1884)Efrem Gisella Calingaert. "De Nittis, Giuseppe." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 9 Aug. 2013. was one of the most important Italian painters of the 19th c ...
: ''Colazione a Posillipo'', 1878: ''La femme aux pompons'', 1879
* Pablo Picasso: ''Tête de femme (La Mediterranée)'', 1957
* Paul Gauguin: ''Vaches à l'abreuvoir'', 1885; ''Donne di Tahiti'', 1891
* Vincent van Gogh: ''Breton Women and Children'', 1888
* Édouard Manet: ''Portrait of M. Arnaud'', 1875
* Paul Cézanne: ''Les voleurs et l'âne'', 1869
Gallery
File:Villa reale 05 van gogh.jpg, Van Gogh, ''Breton Women and Children'', 1888
File:Segantini Die beiden Mütter.jpg, Segantini, ''The two mothers'', 1889
File:Francesco Hayez - Ritratto della contessina Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini.jpg, Hayez, ''Ritratto della contessina Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini'', 1858
File:Paul Gauguin- Cattle Drinking.JPG, Gauguin, ''Vaches à l'abreuvoir'', 1885
File:Édouard Manet - Cavalier (Portrait équestre de M. Arnaud).jpg, Manet, ''Portrait of M. Arnaud'', 1875.
References
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Art museums and galleries in Milan
Modern art museums in Italy
Art museums established in 1921
1921 establishments in Italy
Contemporary art galleries in Italy
Tourist attractions in Milan