Quick Facts
- Italian:
- La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
- Also called:
- La Galleria Nazionale
- Date:
- 1883 - present
- Areas Of Involvement:
- modern art
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National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome.
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
museum, Rome, Italy
Also known as: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, in Rome, important collection devoted to 19th- to 21st-century art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations. The museum was begun in 1883, and in 1914 it moved to its present site in the Palazzo delle Belle Arti. The building was designed by architect and engineer Cesare Bazzani as the centrepiece of the 1911 International Fine Arts Exhibition. The collection is enormous, with works from the early Neoclassical period, including some fine portraits, through the contemporary period. An entire room is devoted to the group of 19th-century painters known as the Macchiaioli.
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