The Galleria d'Arte Moderna is a modern art museum in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, in

Lombardy Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...

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, Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Boldini,

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,

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,

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 technique ...

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 (1912), ''Uomo che dorme'' by Renato Guttuso (1938) and '' The Fourth Estate'' by Pellizza da Volpedo (1901). The museum holds some temporary exhibitions; in 2008 works by Tino Sehgal 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; ''

Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child ''Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child'' is an 1858 oil on canvas portrait by Francesco Hayez, commissioned by the subject's father Alessandro Negroni Prati Morosini. It is now in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan ...

'', 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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