Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma
The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ('National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art'), also known as La Galleria Nazionale, is an art museum in Rome. It was founded in 1883 on the initiative of the then minister Guido Baccelli and is dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma

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The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ('National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art'), also known as La Galleria Nazionale, is an art museum in Rome. It was founded in 1883 on the initiative of the then minister Guido Baccelli and is dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
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Key facts
• Name — Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea • Established — 1883 • Location — Rome • Type — Museum of 19th- and 20th-century art • Director — Cristiana Collu • Website — gnamc.cultura.gov.it
History
History
The present building, at 113 Via delle Belle Arti (near the Villa Giulia), was designed by Cesare Bazzani and was built between 1911 and 1915. On the façade are friezes by Ermenegildo Luppi, Adolfo Laurenti and Giovanni Prini, with four figures of Fame holding bronze wreaths sculpted by Adolfo Pantaresi and Albino Candoni. The museum was expanded and doubled in size by Bazzani in 1934. A new building by Luigi Cosenza was inaugurated in 1988, but closed ten years later over safety concerns. A project developed by architects Diener & Diener in 1999 and 2000 was put on hold in 2003. In 2018 work was done to make the Cosenza building safe to use.
The museum
The museum
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 are Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Alberto Burri, Antonio Canova, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Amedeo Modigliani, Giacomo Manzù, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, and Giorgio Morandi. The museum also holds some works by foreign artists, among them Braque, Calder, Cézanne, Degas, Duchamp, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Monet, Jackson Pollock, Rodin, and Van Gogh. • Illustration — Interior, exhibition of Pino Pascali's 32 mq di mare circa (1967), Antonio Canova's Ettore e Lica (1815), and Giuseppe Penone's Spoglia d'oro su spine d'acacia (2002) The Museo 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.
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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma is associated with Italy. Recorded from 1883.
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1883
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma established.
1883
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma is recorded from 1883.
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L’ampliamento della Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma di Luigi Cosenza, FAMagazine
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- 1.Cfr. DPCM 29 agosto 2014, n. 171.
- 2.Un vivo ricordo di quegli eventi è rimasto nel libro di Palma Bucarelli "1944, cronaca di sei mesi" ed. De Luca, si tratta del diario personale della sovrintendente
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