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

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, in

Lombardy The Lombardy Region (; ) is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in northern Italy and has a population of about 10 million people, constituting more than one-sixth of Italy's population. Lombardy is ...

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 into a poor family on 18 September 1853 in Brescia, in Lombardy, which at th ...

, 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 Bar ...

, Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Boldini,

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks ...

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, 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 (art movement), R ...

Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influ ...

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...

Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...

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 and

Antonio Canova Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italians, Italian Neoclassical sculpture, Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists,. his sculpture was ins ...

, 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 (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

the twentieth-century works in the collection were moved to the

Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea The Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea or PAC is a List of contemporary art museums, museum of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. It is on via Palestro, next to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Milan), Galleria d'Arte Moderna, and across from the Giardin ...

, 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 museum holds some temporary exhibitions; in 2008 works by

Tino Sehgal Tino Sehgal (; ; born 1976) is an artist of German and Indian descent, based in Berlin, who describes his work as "constructed situations". He is also thought of as a choreographer who makes dance for the museum setting. Personal life Sehgal was ...

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 the Italian painter Francesco Hayez, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera. It was commissioned in 1840 by Manzoni's second wife countess Teresa Borri Stampa a ...

'', 1841; ''Penitent Mary Magdalene'', 1833; '' Portrait of Countess Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini as a Child'', 1858; '' Portrait of Matilde Juva Branca'', 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: ''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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