The National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome was created
after the 1881 decree by minister Guido Baccelli and was designed
and built by Cesare Bazzani. The Gallery houses the most important
Italian collection of paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Works by artists belonging to most of the
contemporary art movements are represented as well as neo-classicism,
romanticism and Tuscan Macchiaoli impressionism. The gallery's exhibits
include works by Goya, Géricault, Delacroix, Blake, Renoir,
Rossetti, Courbet, Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Modigliani,
Mondrian,
Duchamp, de Chirico, Cara, Miró, Kandinsky and Klimt. Of
special interest the Sketch for the Tomb of Vittorio Alfieri by
A. Canova; the Klimt's work The Three Ages is magnificent, and two
metaphysical works by Carra and Morandi, and Cezanne's Le Cabanon
de Jourdan. |
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