Galleria d'arte moderna di Milano
The Gallery of Modern Art in Milan is located in the beautiful Villa Reale, residence of Count Lodovico B. Belgiojoso. The Villa, built between 1790 and 1796 by Austrian architect Leopoldo Pollack, is a masterpiece of Neoclassicism. Since the '20s, the building will house the most important collections of modern art in Milan. Following an attack suffered in '93, the Villa has undergone renovation and now offers to the visitors a unique experience, with a newly redesigned path that sees the remarkable blend between "content" (art collections ) and "container" (the Villa, with their precious decorations by Giocondo Albertolli, and the English Garden). The collections, of international prestige, best represents the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular reference to the school of the Academy of Brera. The exhibition opens on the ground floor with Neoclassical age (Appiani and Canova) and the "Vismara Collection," which includes works of sculpture and painting of Italian and international twentieth century (Modigliani, Rossi, Semeghini, De Pisis, Carrà, Morandi and Sironi; Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Vuillard, Rouault, Dufy). The first floor is dedicated to Francesco Hayez and to the protagonists of Italian Romanticism, from Scapigliatura to Divisionism (there are thematic rooms dedicated to Segantini, Grubicy and Longoni). The second floor houses the "Grassi Collection", Italian and foreign masterpieces from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, with a core of ancient works of the Far East. The Gallery offers guided tours, an educational section for schools and a path for the blind, "See with your hands", in collaboration with the Association ART TOGETHER.
