Gallerie di Piazza Scala
The Gallerie di Piazza Scala is a modern and contemporary museum in Milan, Italy. Located in Piazza della Scala in the Palazzo Brentani and the Palazzo Anguissola, 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, Gallerie di Piazza Scala received a special award as “Patron of the XXI century”.
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.Section II: Hayez and painters of Romanticism
and the great romantic themes. Between historic painting and melodrama.Section III: Giovanni Migliara and Vedutistas of the Romanticism
and the picturesque charm of the ancient monuments. Molteni, Pietro Ronzoni, il Piccio, Angelo Inganni, protagonists of the Lombard Romanticism.Section IV: historic depictions of the Risorgimiento
, Sebastiano De Albertis and the Risorgimento.Section V: Vedute of the Cathedral of Milan
The image of Milan in the view and perspective of painting. The cathedral.Section VI: Vedute of Navigli
The image of Milan. The popular appeal of the Navigli.Section VII: Lombard Vedute
The Lombard landscape. Between the evocative poetry of Manzoni and the quest for truth..Section VIII: Revival of the Bourgeois Salon
The revival of the eighteenth century in the bourgeois salon.Section IX: genre scenes
The genre painting. Scenes from the life of the people.Section X: from the Macchiaioli to the Divisionists
From the Macchiaioli to the Divisionists. The atmospheric trial on the real.Section XI: Alpine vedute
Alpine painting. From the sublime poetry to the landscape as an expression of feelings and emotions.Section XII: Symbolism
. Between nature and allegory.Section XIII: Umberto Boccioni. From Pointillism to Futurism
. From Pointillism to Futurism.| Artworks |
194. Tre donne , 1909–1910 195. Officine a Porta Romana, 1910 196. Donna in giardino, 1910 197. Campagna con alberi e ruscello , 1908 |
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
- 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