Five major modern art galleries across Italy
Italy’s national galleries of modern and contemporary art hold some of the world’s most important collections. Five institutions stand out for their scope, significance and influence on art history.
Art
Advertising Poster by Mario Bazzi, 1929
An advertising poster created by Italian illustrator and graphic designer Mario Bazzi in 1929. Bazzi was a prominent cartellonist and commercial artist active throughout the interwar period.
Gladiatori by Giorgio de Chirico, 1929
A 1929 painting by Giorgio de Chirico, founder of the Metaphysical art movement. The work exemplifies de Chirico’s characteristic use of classical imagery and disorienting spatial perspective.
Colombi assassinati by Ernesto Treccani, 1941
A painting by Ernesto Treccani created in 1941, during the artist’s early engagement with anti-Fascist avant-garde movements in Milan.
Advertising Poster by Luigi Martinati, 1933
An advertising poster designed by Italian illustrator Luigi Martinati in 1933. Martinati was a prolific commercial artist and poster designer working in Rome during the early twentieth century.
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Vaso con fiori by Filippo De Pisis, 1941
A still life painting of flowers in a vase, executed by Italian painter and poet Filippo De Pisis in 1941. The work exemplifies De Pisis’s mastery of the floral still-life genre.
Advertising Poster by Marcello Dudovich, 1928
An advertising poster designed by Marcello Dudovich in 1928. Dudovich was one of the founding figures of Italian poster design in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
La tempesta by Fausto Pirandello, 1938
La tempesta is a 1938 painting by Fausto Pirandello, an Italian painter of the Scuola romana. The work exemplifies his distinctive approach to realism and psychological intensity.