Gallerie d’Italia

Wednesday July 6 | from 19:30 to 23:00

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The exhibition at the Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala retraces one hundred years of art history: the Italian nineteenth century. Come take a look and enjoy the cocktail!

The section of the Galleries devoted to the nineteenth century begins in palazzo Anguissola Traversi, a splendid residence built between 1775 and 1778 by the Ticino-born architect Carlo Felice Soave for Count Antonio Traversi.

The new section of the Galleries, which presents the twentieth century art works from the Intesa Sanpaolo collections, is housed in the palazzo historical premises of Banca Commerciale in Piazza della Scala. Erected in the beginning of the last century according to a design by Luca Beltrami, it blends in seamlessly with the group of pre-existing buildings, particularly with palazzo Marino and Teatro alla Scala, from which it borrows some architectural features.

The exhibition at the Gallerie d’Italia – Piazza Scala retraces one hundred years of art history, the Italian nineteenth century. The starting point is provided by the exceptional series of thirteen late eighteenth-century bas-reliefs by Antonio Canova, right up to the highly symbolic step towards the twentieth century seen in the four pre-futuristic works by Umberto Boccioni. 

 

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