Intesa Sanpaolo Bank has opened a rich collection of Italian postwar art to the public at Milan's Palazzo Beltrami at La Scala. The exhibition features approximately 200 works, including works by Lucio Fontana, Emilio Vedova and other

Palazzo Beltrami, Milan
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Italy's largest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo has transformed his old office at La Scala in Milan in an art museum. Corporate collection is housed in a neoclassical bank with features eclectic Palazzo Beltrami, built in 1911 for Banca Commerciale Italiana just opposite the famous opera house La Scala. The exhibition of around 200 works from the extensive collection of Intesa Sanpaolo. The interiors of the old bank were left intact, and the exhibits are displayed next to the uprights as clerks and tellers notes that have been here a hundred years ago. Central banking hall was the main exhibition hall of the new Gallery Italy (Gallerie d'Italia) bank Intesa. Even refurbished bank vaults were converted into exhibition halls.

exhibition tells about the key artistic movements of the 1950s and 90s - from informalizma to pop art. And the works exclusively Italian authors, including many of the natives of the region of Lombardy. A whole room is devoted to the works of the founder spatsializma Lucio Fontana. Other masterpieces in the collection Gallery Italy should include post-war abstract works of Emilio Vedova, collages, Alberto Burri, of Bruno Munari and Renato Guttuso.

Italian banks, even small, traditionally collect art and historical documents of the region, - the chairman of the supervisory board of the bank Intesa Giovanni Batsoli: "These masterpieces [represented in the new museum], however, could enjoy only a matter of staff. In my office hung two of Umberto Boccioni, which are now available to the public ».

at the nearby Palazzo and Palazzo Angissola Brittany from last year has exhibited works of XIX century from the collection of all same bank Intesa Sanpaolo.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

References : reuters.com , artinvestment.ru