Museo del Novecento

Museo del Novecento
Established 2010
Location Palazzo dell'Arengario, Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy
Collections Twentieth-century art
Director Marina Pugliese
Website museodelnovecento.org

The Museo del Novecento ("museum of the twentieth century") is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city.

The museum opened in December 2010, and displays about 400 works, most of them Italian, from the twentieth century.[1]

Collection

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913

Apart from a single room housing works by foreign artists including Braque, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Matisse, Mondrian and Picasso, all the work in the museum is by Italian artists.[1]

A major section is devoted to the Italian Futurists, with works by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Fortunato Depero, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini, Mario Sironi and Ardengo Soffici; the museum's holdings of Boccioni are particularly good.[1]

Other spaces are dedicated to individual artists such as de Chirico, Lucio Fontana and Morandi. There are also sections devoted to the various art movements of the twentieth century, including Abstractionism, Arte Povera, the Novecento Italiano, Post-Impressionism and Realism, and to genres such as landscape and monumental art.[1]

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo's large canvas Il Quarto Stato, painted in 1902, is given a space of its own.[1]

In 2015 the museum received a large donation of works, including work by Daniel Buren, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.[2]

Facilities

The museum has a bookshop, and a restaurant-bar on the top floor, overlooking Piazza del Duomo.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Roderick Conway Morris (22 March 2011). A Milan Home for Modern Art. New York Times. Accessed October 2015.
  2. ↑ [s.n.] (10 August 2015). Warhol, Buren, Kosuth: cresce il Museo del Novecento di Milano (in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. Accessed October 2015.

Further reading

Coordinates: 45°27′49″N 9°11′25″E / 45.46361°N 9.19028°E / 45.46361; 9.19028

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