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Comunale Gallery of the modern and Contemporary
Art
( Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea )
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The
gallery was inaugurated in January 1995.lt houses
the works of the municipal collection datable from 1883
to 1945 and is based in the former seventeenth-century
convent of the barefooted Carmelites connected to the
sixteenth-century Church of S. Giuseppe a Capo le Case.
The
collection was started in 1883 when the City
of Rome purchased several works of historical and
genre theme at the International Exhibition. The first
display of the collection, which had been enriched with
other paintings, took place in 1925 in the rooms of
the Palazzo Caffarelli.
The
gallery was temporarily closed in 1938 and was reopened
in 1963 in the halls of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni
in Via Nazionale and again closed with the contextual
transfer of the works to Palazzo Braschi.
In the
existing arrangement that is organized on three floors
of the abovementioned former convent, the gallery
houses more than four thousand works by important
artists mostly Italian from XIX and XX centuries.
Some
of the works on display: the great triptych on a table
by Giulio Aristide Sartorio called ''Le vergini savie
e le vergini stolte" datable between 1890 and 1891
and the most radiant landscape "Carri di fieno a
Terracina" from 1923; the two oil paintings by Giacomo
Balla "The doubt" and "Portrait of Nathan"
(politician and mayor of Rome), both of inspiration
and relevant to the early production of the artist.
The futurist
movement is represented in several works by Fortunato
Depero "Polenta a fuoco duro" (1924-1926), Enrico
Trampolini ''La bullfight" (1929-1930) and "Sailor in
space" (1934), with a clear study on the dynamics and
decomposition of color.
The first
nucleus of the so-called Roman School -movement
of clear expressionist definition - is represented on
the other hand by the works of Scipione including his
"11 Cardinal Decano" from 1930 and of Mario Mafai exhibited
with the painting "Demolizione in Via Giulia" from 1936.
The still
life genre is represented by such works as that by Filippo
De Pisis with fish and bottle from 1925 and that by
Giorgio Morandi from 1932 with oil on canvas, together
with three others painted by the same artist using the
technique of etching on copper in the thirties.
Giorgio
De Chirico is represented by a single oil painting portraying
a "Contest of Gladiators" (1933-1934), while
his brother Antonio Savinio is exhibited with the representation
of Autumn from 1934 in oily tempera on canvas.
There
is a self-portrait from 1937 by Sicilian painter Renato
Guttuso, Mario Sironi is represented with an oil painting
entitled "The family" from 1927, the many sculptures
on display include the "Bust of a Lady" (1907)
and "Tete au nez casse," (1913) in bronze by
Auguste Rodin, the "Portrait of Anna Gemito"
(1886) in terracotta and clay, the "Bust of Cesare
Correnti" (1878) in plaster and the big "Horse"
(1920-1926) in wood by Vincenzo Gemito.
Address
Via Francesco Crispi, 24
Visiting
Hours Closed until autumn 2008 Telephone 06 4742848
- 4742909; Fax 06 4742912
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