Gallerie d'Italia – Milano

Nineteenth Century

The works of Antonio Canova in Rezzonico reliefs. Between Socratic Homeric epics and ethics, between Christian virtues and enlightened philanthropy (Rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4).

Francesco Hayez and the great romantic themes. Between historic painting and melodrama (Room 5).

Giovanni Migliara and the picturesque charm of the ancient monuments. Molteni, Pietro Ronzoni, il Piccio, Angelo Inganni, protagonists of the Lombard Romanticism (Rooms 6 and 7).

Gerolamo Induno, Sebastiano De Albertis and the Risorgimento (Rooms 8 and 9).

The image of Milan in the view and perspective of painting. The cathedral (Rooms 10, 11, 12 and 13).

The image of Milan. The popular appeal of the Navigli (Room 14).

The Lombard landscape. Between the evocative poetry of Manzoni and the quest for truth. (Room 15).

The revival of the eighteenth century in the bourgeois salon (Room 16).

The genre painting. Scenes from the life of the people (Rooms 17 and 18).

From the Macchiaioli to the Divisionists. The atmospheric trial on the real (Room 18).

Alpine painting. From the sublime poetry to the landscape as an expression of feelings and emotions (Rooms 19 and 20).

Symbolism. Between nature and allegory (Rooms 21 and 22).

Umberto Boccioni. From Pointillism to Futurism (Room 23).

Twentieth Century

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 (MAC - Movimento Arte Concreta)