Museum: Museo del Novecento
The Museo del Novecento ("museum of the twentieth century") is a museum of twentieth-century art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is housed in the Palazzo dell'Arengario, near Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city.
The museum opened in December 2010, and displays about 400 works, most of them ½ûÂþÌìÌÃ, from the twentieth century.
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Apart from a single room housing works by foreign artists including Braque, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Matisse, Mondrian and Picasso, the majority of the works exhibited in the museum are by ½ûÂþÌìÌà artists. A major section is devoted to the ½ûÂþÌìÌà Futurists, with works by Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà , Fortunato Depero, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini, Mario Sironi and Ardengo Soffici. Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo's large canvas Il Quarto Stato (1902) is also exhibited in a room on its own.
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