Amedeo Modigliani in Worldwide Museums: 18. Pinacoteca di Brera

 

 

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The 18th place I would like to introduce for this week is The Pinacoteca di Brera.

The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery in Milan, Italy. Housing some of the most important collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th centuries, it is an outgrowth of the cultural program of the Brera Academy, which shares the site in the Palazzo Brera.

The convent on the site passed to the Jesuits in 1572 and was then radically rebuilt by Francesco Maria Richini. When the Jesuits were disbanded in 1773, the palazzo remained the seat of the astronomical Observatory and the Braidense National Library, founded by the Jesuits. The buildings were extended to the design by Giuseppe Piermarini, who was appointed professor of the Academy when it was formally founded in 1776, with Giuseppe Parini as dean. Piermarini taught at the Academy for 20 years, and under Parini's successors, Carlo Bianconi and Giuseppe Bossi, the Academy acquired the first paintings of its Pinacoteca.

In 1882, the Paintings Gallery was separated from the Academy and Giuseppe Bertini was appointed as its first director. In 1903, the Pinacoteca opened 19 new rooms to display over a hundred newly acquired works, such as frescoes by Donato Bramante.

In 1939, during World War II, Pinacoteca's works were secured by Fernanda Wittgens, while the building was severely damaged in the bombings in 1943. In February 1946, The Pinacoteca began its slow resurrection from the ruins, thanks to the funding from some historic Milanese families, including the Bernocchi family, and to the work of Piero Portaluppi, Gualtiero Galmanini and Fernanda Wittgens.

The works of Modigliani currently in the possession of The Pinacoteca di Brera are as follows.

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Amedeo Modigliani in Worldwide Museums: 17. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The 17th place I would like to introduce for this week is The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is the largest art museum in the Americas. The museum's permanent collection includes over two million works and is divided into 17 curatorial departments. 

Located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, the main building is one of the largest art museums in the world by area. A much smaller second museum, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, houses an extensive collection of medieval European art, architecture and artifacts.

The Met Cloisters

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with the mission of providing art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures by almost all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The museum also has extensive collections of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine and Islamic art. It also has extensive collections of antique weapons and armor, musical instruments, costumes and accessories from around the world. The galleries in the museum feature several noteworthy interiors, ranging from 1st-century Roman to modern American design.

The works of Modigliani currently in the possession of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are as follows.

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Amedeo Modigliani in Worldwide Museums: 16. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

 

 

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The 16th place I would like to introduce for this week is Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located in Manhattan in New York City. It has a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art, and hosts special exhibitions throughout the year. 

The museum was founded in 1939 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation as an abstract art museum, under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay. The museum adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim.

Solomon R. Guggenheim

A landmark work of 20th-century architecture designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the museum building drew controversy for its unique shape of its exhibition space and was completed in 1959 after 15 years of design and construction. The museum's main gallery features a six-story spiral ramp that extends along its perimeter and a central ceiling skylight.

The museum's main gallery

The museum's collection has grown over the decades and is based on several important private collections, starting with the collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim. With around 8,000 works as of 2022, the museum's collection is shared with sister museums such as The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The works of Modigliani currently in the possession of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are as follows.

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Amedeo Modigliani in Worldwide Museums: 15. Detroit Institute of Arts

 

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The 15th place I would like to introduce for this week is Detroit Institute of Arts.

Founded in 1885, the Detroit Institute of Arts was originally located on Jefferson Avenue, but moved to its current location on Woodward Avenue in 1927 as its collection rapidly expanded. The Beaux-Arts building, designed by Paul Philippe Cret, was immediately called the “temple of art.” Two wings were added in the 1960s and 1970s, and a major renovation and expansion work began in 1999 and was completed in 2007.

The museum has over 658,000 square feet, including more than 100 galleries, a 1,150-seat auditorium, a 380-seat lecture/recital hall, an art reference library, and a state-of-the-art art conservation lab.

With more than 65,000 works, the Detroit Institute of Arts is among the top six in the United States by its collection size. William Valentiner, director from 1924 to 1945, acquired many important works that framed the present collection. Among his notable acquisitions are Mexican artist Diego Rivera's “Detroit Industry” fresco mural, which Rivera regarded as his most successful work, and Vincent van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait”, the first Van Gogh painting to enter a U. S. Museum collection.

A hallmark of the Detroit Institute of Arts is the diversity of its collection. In addition to outstanding American, European, Modern and Contemporary, and Graphic art, the museum holds important works of African, Asian, Native American, Oceanian, Islamic and Ancient art.

The works of Modigliani currently in the possession of the Detroit Institute of Arts are as follows.

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