Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale

Founded in 1925, the collection kept in the Via Crispi Gallery has had since its establishment a very specific purpose: to document the Roman artistic environment. That's what comes to us - after almost a century - an absolute wealth of Modern Art, as well as one of the major capital of Rome, today. masterpieces of sculpture, painting and graphic signed by the great artists who made them between the second half of the nineteenth century and after World War II, are evidence of the best of that time in Rome and tell the history, not only of Art . The first nucleus of the gallery - acquired in 1883 at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts and intended to get rich quick - was inaugurated at Palazzo Caffarelli in the Capitol. It Is 1931 the transformation of the name Mussolini Gallery, and there is, then, a highly representative of the previous century Italian art scene. But it is precisely in the course of the thirties that the collection has been extended with the acquisition of works by the Roman festivals of the time. These were years of extraordinary creative fervor, and in fact become part of the collection of works by Giorgio de Chirico, Mario Mafai, Scipione, Gino Severini, Giorgio Morandi, Capogrossi, Afro, Alberto Savinio, Carlo Carra, and Mario Sironi, among sculptors , Arturo Martini, Marino Marini, Giacomo Manzu. The current exhibition in the old monastery of the Discalced Carmelites returns to the public - after many years away from the closure in 2003 - a proper gallery to modern museum standards, where you can admire a fine selection of works among the three thousand part of the collection. It is a privileged location between the trends post Risorgimento and Italian art of the twentieth century: from the Neapolitan Vincenzo Gemito realism Symbolist aesthetics of Nino Costa and Hirémy Hirschl, from Liberty interpretations of Adolfo De Carolis and Cambellotti to portraits of the Roman Pointillism, you get to the artistic culture between the wars. Here, it ranges from the discovery of a new classicism in Felice Carena to the twentieth century Mario Sironi; the Magic Realism of Antonio Donghi to futurists outcomes of Enrico Prampolini, to continue with the masterpieces of the Thirties: Scipione and the Roman School of painting, Arturo Martini and Marino Marini sculpture.