National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome

The National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome was created after the 1881 decree by minister Guido Baccelli and was designed and built by Cesare Bazzani. The Gallery houses the most important Italian collection of paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Works by artists belonging to most of the contemporary art movements are represented as well as neo-classicism, romanticism and Tuscan Macchiaoli impressionism. The gallery's exhibits include works by Goya, Géricault, Delacroix, Blake, Renoir, Rossetti, Courbet, Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Modigliani, Mondrian,
Duchamp, de Chirico, Cara, Miró, Kandinsky and Klimt. Of special interest the Sketch for the Tomb of Vittorio Alfieri by A. Canova; the Klimt's work The Three Ages is magnificent, and two metaphysical works by Carra and Morandi, and Cezanne's Le Cabanon de Jourdan.