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| Established | 1883 |
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| Location | Rome |
| Coordinates | 41°55′01″N12°28′56″E / 41.9170°N 12.4821°E /41.9170; 12.4821 |
| Type | Museum of 19th and 20th century art |
| Director | Cristiana Collu |
| Website | lagallerianazionale |
TheGalleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ('National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art'), also known asLa Galleria Nazionale, is anart museum in Rome. It was founded in 1883 on the initiative of the then ministerGuido Baccelli and is dedicated tomodern andcontemporary art.
The present building, at 113 Via delle Belle Arti (near theVilla Giulia), was designed byCesare Bazzani and was built between 1911 and 1915. On the façade arefriezes byErmenegildo Luppi,Adolfo Laurenti andGiovanni Prini,[1] with four figures of Fame holding bronze wreaths sculpted by Adolfo Pantaresi and Albino Candoni.[2]
The museum was expanded and doubled in size by Bazzani in 1934. A new building byLuigi Cosenza [it] was inaugurated in 1988, but closed ten years later over safety concerns. A project developed by architectsDiener & Diener[3] in 1999 and 2000 was put on hold in 2003. In 2018 work was done to make the Cosenza building safe to use.[4]
The museum displays about 1100 paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of which it has the largest collection in Italy. Among the Italian artists represented areGiacomo Balla,Umberto Boccioni,Alberto Burri,Antonio Canova,Giorgio de Chirico,Lucio Fontana,Amedeo Modigliani,Giacomo Manzù,Vittorio Matteo Corcos,[5] andGiorgio Morandi.[6]: 169
The museum also holds some works by foreign artists, among themBraque,Calder,Cézanne,Degas,Duchamp,Giacometti,Kandinsky,Mondrian,Monet,Jackson Pollock,Rodin, andVan Gogh.[7]
TheMuseo Boncompagni Ludovisi per le arti decorative, the Museo Hendrik C. Andersen, the Raccoltà Manzù, and the Museo Mario Praz form part of the Galleria Nazionale.[8]
Galleria Nazionale d travel guide from Wikivoyage
Media related toGalleria nazionale d'arte moderna (Rome) at Wikimedia Commons| Preceded by Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica | Landmarks of Rome Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna | Succeeded by Giorgio de Chirico House Museum |
