National Gallery of Modern Art

Founded in 1883, the National Gallery of Modern Art (“Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna”) today displays the most significant collection of painting and sculpture dating from the 19th and 20th century.
Visitors may view paintings from the Posillipo and Neapolitan Schools, painted in the macchiaiolo style of acclaimed artists such as, Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Vincenzo Cabianca, Telemace Signorini and others.
The National Gallery of Modern Art offers two rooms dedicated to the art of Domenico Morelli, another room that features Romantic painting, and others reserved for work of Medardo Rosso, pointillists, the Italian schools of Northern Italy, anecdotal and verist painters, Italian painters in Paris, Italian painters during the late 1800s, Antonio Mancini and painters of the landscape verism movement. The XXXVIII room showcases the works of leading European masters of the time including Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne and Van Gogh. The XXXIX room is dedicated to futurists from Boccioni, Balla, Severini, Soffici to Prampolini, while the XLI is reserved for metaphysicians. The XLV room devoted to the Roman School and the LII to foreign masters such as Paul Klee, Kandinsky and Max Ernst.