The Gallery of Modern Art, on the second floor of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, preserves paintings and sculptures from the end of the 1700s to the early decades of the 1900s.
The works of art allow to highlight the evolution of Tuscan art from the Neoclassical, Romantic and Purist periods to the anti-academic reform established by the Macchiaoli group and based on a style of painting characterized by stains of colour and contrasts of light, with predominant attention to the subjects of nature and daily life. On display are paintings by Giovanni Fattori, leader of the Macchiaioli, and works by other painters belonging to this important artistic movement, such as Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega.
The nineteenth-century itinerary ends with expressions of decadence, symbolism, post-impressionism, divisionism.
The Gallery is housed in the richly decorated rooms once inhabited by the Lorraine family, and later also by the Savoy one, and whose windows have a splendid view over the Boboli Gardens and Florence.
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