National Gallery of Modern Art
You’re at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea—Rome’s home for modern and contemporary art, founded in 1883 on the initiative of minister Guido Baccelli. The story of the museum is literally built into the façade: the current building was designed by Cesare Bazzani and erected between 1911 and 1915, and its façade carries friezes by Ermenegildo Luppi, Adolfo Laurenti, and Giovanni Prini. Four figures of Fame hold bronze wreaths sculpted by Adolfo Pantaresi and Albino Candoni—a neat reminder that even art history in Rome loves drama. Bazzani doubled the museum’s size in 1934, and later, Luigi Cosenza inaugurated a new building in 1988—only to close it ten years afterward for safety concerns. Today the collection holds about 1,100 paintings and sculptures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it’s especially strong in Italian names like Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni. …
AI-generated from open data and cross-checked, with review where noted. How we write narrations
🎧 Listen in WayWhisperOfficial website ↗
