Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vatican Museums
Established | 1973 |
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Location | Vatican City |
Curator | Mario Ferrazza |
Website | https://museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani-mobile/en/collezioni/musei/collezione-d_arte-contemporanea/collezione-d-arte-contemporanea.html |
The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art is a collection of paintings, graphic art and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.
It occupies 55 rooms: the
A permanent contemporary art gallery was installed on the premises in November 2021.[2]
Collection
The collection consists of almost 800 works by 250 international artists including:
In 2011, Matisse's son, Pierre, donated to the Vatican Museum. As a result, Matisse has his own room in the Vatican, containing a set of Catholic liturgical vestments called chasubles from Vence.[5] Other notable works include Vincent Van Gogh's Pietà and Paul Gauguin's wooden relief. In the same room, post-Impressionist sculptor Merdardo Rosso created a wax work known as Aetas Aurea.[6] Francis Bacon created a piece detailing Pope Innocent X. Auguste Rodin's aquatints and a Hand of God cast are also displayed in the Vatican.[5]
Another room in the Vatican is dedicated to Marino Marini, a modernist Italian sculptor. Many of the donations in the Vatican came from private collectors and families, and Marini's wife, Marina, donated many of his pieces to the Vatican. His distinctly religious works are a bronze crucifix called Crocifisso, a relief sculpture titled Crocifissione, and a bust of a juggler, Giocoliere.[7] The art of Gentili Guttuso, another Italian painter, occupies the eighth room of the Vatican Collection. His work is much more figurative than Marini's, focusing on religious subject matter but represented through an avant-garde style of abstraction.[8] His work, similar to other artists featured, is somewhat surrealist.
The prehistory of the Collection of Modern Religious Art begun with the homily of Pope
Pope
In 2018, the museum commissioned a group of established photographers to document and interpret the interior and architectural spaces of the museums. Works by Bill Armstrong, Peter Bialobrzeski, Antonio Biasiucci, Alain Fleischer, Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, Rinko Kawauchi, Martin Parr and Massimo Siragusa were exhibited in a subsequent exhibition called "A matter of light. Nine photographers in the Vatican Museums", the show was produced to be a symbolic beginning of a new photographic collection at the museum; with pictures that are directly related to the museum itself. [11]
See also
- Index of Vatican City-related articles
Notes
- ^ a b "Collection of Contemporary Art". Musei Vaticani. Archived from the original on 2017-07-14. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Magazine, Smithsonian; Gershon, Livia. "The Vatican, Home to Centuries-Old Masterpieces, Opens a Contemporary Art Gallery". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ^ a b Speech of Pope Paul VI on the occasion of the Inauguration of the Collection of Modern Religious Art in the Vatican Museums on June 23, 1973 [1]
- S2CID 228874834, retrieved 2021-06-01
- ^ S2CID 170861519.
- ^ "Van Gogh, Gauguin, Medardo". Musei Vaticani. Archived from the original on 2017-03-09. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ "Marino Marini". Musei Vaticani. Archived from the original on 2017-05-12. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ "Gentilini, Guttuso". Musei Vaticani. Archived from the original on 2017-03-10. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
- ^ Homily of Pope Paul VI at the “Mass of the Artists” in the Sistine Chapel on May 7, 1964 [2]
- S2CID 191440264.
- ISBN 978-8869657528.
References
- ISBN 978-3-506-76388-4)
- Francesco Buranelli: Art and Faith in the Vatican Museums. The artistic Collections of the Popes, spiritual Treasure of Mankind, in: „Images of Salvation“, Pomezia 2002, pp. 63–71
- Mario Ferrazza (Ed.): Collezione d'Arte Religiosa Moderna, presentation by Francesco Buranelli, Vatican City 2000