Ca' Pesaro Museum of Modern Art

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title	Ca' Pesaro Museum of Modern Art
category	museum
facility	art
description
The grand palazzo, which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, was built in the second half of the seventeenth century for the noble and wealthy Pesaro family. The palazzo hosts the municipal collection of modern art, which had been started in 1897, the year of the second Venice Biennale. It consisted mainly of works bought by the Town Council at the Venice Biennale: up to the 1950s, European art was favoured, in agreement with the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna of Rome, which acquired Italian works at the Biennale. From the 1960s onwards a new policy was adopted, privileging Italian art. As a result, there was a visible increase in the number of works by artists such as Boccioni, Casorati, Gino Rossi and Arturo Martini, who, thanks to the “Bevilacqua La Masa Exhibitions”, had made Ca’ Pesaro famous as an inspiration for innovation in Italian art. In 1914 a number of remarkable works in wax, by Medardo Rosso, were acquired, and in the 60s, the De Lisi’s donation enriched the gallery with works of various famous artists, thus filling certain gaps left by the municipal policy of acquisition.
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