Art Galleries in Italy

National Gallery of Modern Art
Viale delle Belle Arti 131

This gallery of modern art houses an array of neoclassical, romantic paintings and sculpture. Located over 75 rooms you will also find the largest collection in Italy of 19th- and 20th-century works by Balla, Boccioni, De Chirico, Morandi, Manzù, Burri, Capogrossi, and Fontana. There are also a few notable works by Calder, Cézanne, Giacometti, Amedeo Modigliani, Braque, canova, Degas, Vassily Kandinsky, Mondrian, Monet, Pollock, Rodin, van Gogh and Klein.

There are also many works of optical, modern and pop art by famous artists around the world. You'll also find many important sculptures, including one by Canova in the museum's gardens.

Uffizi Gallery
Piazzale degli Uffizi 6, Florence
Tel: +39 0552388651

This is one of the most famous museums of paintings and sculpture in the world. Its collection of Primitive and Renaissance paintings comprises several universally acclaimed masterpieces of all time, including works by Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio. German, Dutch and Flemish masters are also well represented with important works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens. The Uffizi Gallery occupies the top floor of the large building erected by Giorgio Vasari between 1560 and 1580 to house the administrative offices of the Tuscan State. The Gallery was created by Grand-duke Francesco I and subsequently enriched by various members of the Medici family, who were great collectors of paintings, sculpture and works of art. The collection was rearranged and enlarged by the Lorraine Grand-dukes, who succeeded the Medici, and finally by the Italian State. The Uffizi buildings also house other important collections: the Contini Bonacossi Collection and the Collection of Prints and Drawings (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi). The Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway connecting the Uffizi with the Pitti Palace, was built by Vasari in 1565. It is hung with an important collection of 17th-century paintings and the famous collection of artists’ Self-portraits.

The Borghese Gallery
Piazzale del Museo Borghese, 5 00197 Rome

The Borghese Gallery is an art gallery housed in the former Villa Borghese Pinciana.The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities, which was begun by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V. The statue of Pauline Bonaparte, executed by Canova between 1805 and 1808, has been in the villa since 1838. In 1807, Camillo Borghese sold Napoleon 154 statues, 160 busts, 170 bas-reliefs, 30 columns and various vases, which constitue the "Borghese Collection" in the Louvre.

Pinacoteca di Brera
Via Brera, 28 20121 Milan
Tel.: (+39) 02722631

The galleries collection is modest but exquisite in quality, covering works by major Italian artists from the 13th to the 20th centuries. Many of the paintings were harvested from churches and monasteries suppressed by the Napoleonic regime. Today they can bee senn in all their glory...