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Rome, Rome information, about Rome, information about, Gallery of the Modern & Contemporary Art, Rome tour, art galleries in Rome, tours in Rome Italy, contemporary art, gallery, museums information, Rome Museums, Museums in Rome, best Museums of Rome, Rome museums information, best Museums in Rome, Italy Comunale Gallery of the modern and Contemporary Art ( Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ) FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TOURS IN ROME: Rome, Rome information about Rome - Rome information about Comunale Gallery of the Modern & Contemporary Art, Rome tour of the art galleries in Rome information about tours in Rome Italy www.tourinrome.com www.vaticanguidedtour.com info@romeinformation.info The gallery was inaugurated in January 1995.lt houses the works of the municipal collection datable from 1883 to 1945 and is based in the former seventeenth-century convent of the barefooted Carmelites connected to the sixteenth-century Church of S. Giuseppe a Capo le Case. The collection was started in 1883 when the City of Rome purchased several works of historical and genre theme at the International Exhibition. The first display of the collection, which had been enriched with other paintings, took place in 1925 in the rooms of the Palazzo Caffarelli. The gallery was temporarily closed in 1938 and was reopened in 1963 in the halls of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Via Nazionale and again closed with the contextual transfer of the works to Palazzo Braschi. In the existing arrangement that is organized on three floors of the abovementioned former convent, the gallery houses more than four thousand works by important artists mostly Italian from XIX and XX centuries. Some of the works on display: the great triptych on a table by Giulio Aristide Sartorio called ''Le vergini savie e le vergini stolte" datable between 1890 and 1891 and the most radiant landscape "Carri di fieno a Terracina" from 1923; the two oil paintings by Giacomo Balla "The doubt" and "Portrait of Nathan" (politician and mayor of Rome), both of inspiration and relevant to the early production of the artist. The futurist movement is represented in several works by Fortunato Depero "Polenta a fuoco duro" (1924-1926), Enrico Trampolini ''La bullfight" (1929-1930) and "Sailor in space" (1934), with a clear study on the dynamics and decomposition of color. The first nucleus of the so-called Roman School -movement of clear expressionist definition - is represented on the other hand by the works of Scipione including his "11 Cardinal Decano" from 1930 and of Mario Mafai exhibited with the painting "Demolizione in Via Giulia" from 1936. The still life genre is represented by such works as that by Filippo De Pisis with fish and bottle from 1925 and that by Giorgio Morandi from 1932 with oil on canvas, together with three others painted by the same artist using the technique of etching on copper in the thirties. Giorgio De Chirico is represented by a single oil painting portraying a "Contest of Gladiators" (1933-1934), while his brother Antonio Savinio is exhibited with the representation of Autumn from 1934 in oily tempera on canvas. There is a self-portrait from 1937 by Sicilian painter Renato Guttuso, Mario Sironi is represented with an oil painting entitled "The family" from 1927, the many sculptures on display include the "Bust of a Lady" (1907) and "Tete au nez casse," (1913) in bronze by Auguste Rodin, the "Portrait of Anna Gemito" (1886) in terracotta and clay, the "Bust of Cesare Correnti" (1878) in plaster and the big "Horse" (1920-1926) in wood by Vincenzo Gemito. Address Via Francesco Crispi, 24 Visiting Hours Closed until autumn 2008 Telephone 06 4742848 - 4742909; Fax 06 4742912 For Tours information – private guided tours – special entrances, no waiting in line - VIP services FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TOURS IN ROME: OFFICIAL TOUR COMPANY OF ROME AND Vatican city official TOUR COMPANY OF ROME AND Vatican city www.tourinrome.com www.vaticanguidedtour.com info@romeinformation.info Suggested accommodations in Rome with special offers B&B near the Coliseum www.domuscaracalla.com Special offers 2010 ! Special apartment in the city centre of Rome - in the Jewish Ghetto and Trastevere www.specialromeapartment.com www.residenzasantamaria.com