The National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome emerged after a long discussion about the need for a National Gallery that would display not only classical art, but also paintings by contemporary masters.
The Palazzo del Esposizioni was built for the halls of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, but it was catastrophically short of space for the collections, which forced the organizers of the exhibitions to constantly create temporary exhibitions, and this caused serious inconvenience.
Exhibits of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome
The collections of the National Gallery were regularly replenished, for 20 years we constantly had to find ways to place paintings and sculptures in the small halls of the National Gallery of Rome. 1911 brought to Rome Villa Borghese (near the Etruscan Museum), the premises of which housed all the jewels of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The city commissioned Cesare Buzzani, Italy’s foremost architect, to erect the pinacotheca. At the present time the gallery welcomes guests with fifty-five rooms, in which an amazing collection of masterpieces of the contemporaries is collected.
The National Gallery of Rome features many works:
“Dreams.”
“Three Ages of Woman” by Gustav Klimt (fifth year of the twentieth century). The canvas, showing women of different ages, symbolically tells the viewer about the cycle of life. The painting, with the image of women in the center, is in the tradition of Klimt.
In the hall of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, one can admire Vincent Van Gogh’s The Arlesian (1890). Van Gogh’s portrait of a woman, done in his usual manner, is a late version of the 1888 painting, only on this canvas from the National Gallery of Rome the lady looks much older.
“Dreams,” by Vittorio Corkos (ninety-sixth year of the 19th century). A painting depicting Elena Vecchi, the daughter of a friend of the artist. The incredibly stylish portrait, painted in Florence, is now in the hall of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.
“Lilies” by Claude Monet (1898) can also be seen here. Painted in oil, the water lily is one of those created by the master in 1898.
In the National Gallery, there is excitement around “Hercules and Lichas” by Antonio Canova (he began sculpting in 1795 and finished only 20 years later). The sculptor was inspired by the antique work “Hercules of Farnesia”.
The gallery displays works by the great masters of art to date, among them masterpieces:
Paul Cézanne
Giorgio De Chirico
Marcel Duchamp
Gustav Klimt
Amedeo Modigliani
Van Gogh
Sophie Riestelhuber
David Rivalt
It’s hard to list all the names. The title of the exhibition is Time Is Out of Joint, the words from Shakespeare’s Hamlet symbolizing the theme that unites the exhibited masterpieces.