Gallerie di Piazza Scala explained

Gallerie di Piazza Scala
Coordinates:	45.4683°N 9.191°W
Location:	Piazza della Scala 6 Milan, Italy
Director:	Andrea M. Massari

The Gallerie d'Italia - Milano is a modern and contemporary museum in Milan, Italy. Located in Piazza della Scala in the Palazzo Brentani and the Palazzo Anguissola Antona Traversi, it hosts 195 artworks from the collections of Fondazione Cariplo with a strong representation of nineteenth century Lombard painters and sculptors, including Antonio Canova and Umberto Boccioni. A new section was opened in the Palazzo della Banca Commerciale Italiana on October 25, 2012 with 189 art works from the twentieth century.

During the 2017 Corporate Art Awards Ceremony hosted by the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace,^[1] Gallerie d'Italia - Milano received a special award as “Patron of the XXI century”.^[2]

Nineteenth Century

Sections

Section I: Canova bas reliefs

The works of Antonio Canova in Rezzonico reliefs. Between Socratic Homeric epics and ethics, between Christian virtues and enlightened philanthropy (Rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4).

Section II: Hayez and painters of Romanticism

Francesco Hayez and the great romantic themes. Between historic painting and melodrama (Room 5).

Section III: Giovanni Migliara and Vedutistas of the Romanticism

Giovanni Migliara and the picturesque charm of the ancient monuments. Molteni, Pietro Ronzoni, il Piccio, Angelo Inganni, protagonists of the Lombard Romanticism (Rooms 6 and 7).

Section IV: historic depictions of the Risorgimento

Gerolamo Induno, Sebastiano De Albertis and the Risorgimento (Rooms 8 and 9).

Section V: Vedute of the Cathedral of Milan

The image of Milan in the view and perspective of painting. The cathedral (Rooms 10, 11, 12 and 13).

Section VI: Vedute of Navigli

The image of Milan. The popular appeal of the Navigli (Room 14).

Section VII: Lombard Vedute

The Lombard landscape. Between the evocative poetry of Manzoni and the quest for truth. (Room 15).

Section VIII: Revival of the Bourgeois Salon

The revival of the eighteenth century in the bourgeois salon (Room 16).

Section IX: genre scenes

The genre painting. Scenes from the life of the people (Rooms 17 and 18).

Section X: from the Macchiaioli to the Divisionists

From the Macchiaioli to the Divisionists. The atmospheric trial on the real (Room 18).

Section XI: Alpine vedute

Alpine painting. From the sublime poetry to the landscape as an expression of feelings and emotions (Rooms 19 and 20).

Section XII: Symbolism

Symbolism. Between nature and allegory (Rooms 21 and 22).

Section XIII: Umberto Boccioni. From Pointillism to Futurism

Umberto Boccioni. From Pointillism to Futurism (Room 23).

Twentieth Century

Sections

Ouverture 1

• Section 1, Room 1: The memory of the image and its repression
• Section 2, Rooms 2-3-4: Lucio Fontana, Spatialism and the Nuclear Movement
• Section 3, Room 5: "Concrete" Abstract art between the Forties and the Fifties (MAC - Movimento Arte Concreta)
• Section 4, Room 6: Painting beyond painting. Action, tracks, imprints
• Section 5, Room 7: Forms of Informel
• Monographia 1, Room 8: Colour as a plastic form. A journey through a form of abstraction
• Monographia 2, Room 9: Emilio Isgrò, Italian Time
• Section 6, Room 10: Programmed and Kinetic art

Ouverture 2

• Section 7, Room 11: The Sixties: signs, words, narratives
• Section 8, Room 12: The Sixties: things, images
• Section 9, Room 13: Around Arte Povera
• Section 10, Room 14: Conceptual practices
• Section 11, Room 15: Constructivist ideas
• Section 12, Room 16: Late twentieth century perspectives

Artworks

See also

• Art collections of Fondazione Cariplo
• List of largest art museums

External links

• • Gallerie d'Italia - Milano

Notes and References

1. Web site: Il Presidente Mattarella ha ricevuto i partecipanti al Convegno "Mecenati del XXI secolo". 22 November 2017.
2. Web site: Al gruppo Intesa Sanpaolo il premio speciale per i mecenati. Corriere della Sera. 22 November 2017.