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The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art is a collection of paintings, graphic art and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.

Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vatican Museums

Established	1973
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

It occupies 55 rooms: the Borgia Apartment (apartment of Pope Alexander VI) on the first floor of the Apostolic Palace, the two floors of the Salette Borgia, a series of rooms below the Sistine Chapel, and a series of rooms on the ground floor. Approximately 250 artists created over 500 pieces that are displayed in the Borgia Apartments. The Collection was officially introduced to the public on June 23, 1973.[1]

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: Francis Bacon, Giacomo Balla, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Émile Bernard, Bernard Buffet, Alice Lok Cahana, Marc Chagall, Eduardo Chillida, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Maurice Denis, Otto Dix, Paul Gauguin, Renato Guttuso, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Manessier, Giacomo Manzù, Giorgio Morandi, Pablo Picasso, Odilon Redon, Auguste Rodin, Georges Rouault, Maurice Utrillo, Vincent van Gogh, and Henri Matisse. The majority of these works of art were donated by artists and collectors to the Holy See.[3] The collection combines works that are "surrealist, cubist, post-impressionist, and expressionist."[4]

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 avante-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 Paul VI during his encounter with artists in the Sistine Chapel on May 7, 1964.[9] The Pope expressed an ambition to link the Church to contemporary art in order to bridge the past and present.[1]

Pope Paul VI inaugurated the Collection of Modern Religious Art in 1973.[3] Mario Ferrazza has been responsible for the collection since 1973. On April 23, 1999, Pope John Paul II introduced a new area to the Collection, which continues to expand in space and scope.[10]

Sale of art

In response to demands by activists that the Vatican should sell its artistic artifacts and give them to the poor, Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes asserted that the Church has the duty to conserve the works of art in the name of the Italian state and cannot sell them.[11]

See also

• Index of Vatican City-related articles

Notes

References

• Ralf van Bühren: Kunst und Kirche im 20. Jahrhundert. Die Rezeption des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils (Konziliengeschichte, Reihe B: Untersuchungen). Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh 2008 (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

На других языках

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[de] Sammlung Moderner Religiöser Kunst

Die Sammlung Moderner Religiöser Kunst (ital.: Collezione d’Arte Religiosa Moderna) ist eine 1973 durch Papst Paul VI. eröffnete Abteilung der Vatikanischen Museen innerhalb der Vatikanstadt.

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- [en] Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vatican Museums

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[es] Colección de Arte Religioso Moderno

La Colección de Arte Religioso Moderno de los Museos Vaticanos es una colección de pintura, gráfica y escultura expuesta en 55 salas. Comprende casi 800 obras de 250 artistas internacionales, por ejemplo de Auguste Rodin, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Maurice Denis, Odilon Redon, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall, Paul Klee, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Maurice Utrillo, Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Georges Rouault, Oskar Kokoschka, Bernard Buffet, Renato Guttuso, Giacomo Balla, Alfred Manessier, Francis Bacon, Giacomo Manzú, Eduardo Chillida, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso. La mayoría de las obras eran donadas por artistas y coleccionistas a la Santa Sede.[1]

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[it] Collezione d'arte religiosa moderna

La Collezione d'arte religiosa moderna, o anche Collezione d'arte contemporanea[1], è una sezione dei Musei Vaticani, distribuita in cinquantacinque sale e salette nell'Appartamento Borgia del Palazzo Apostolico medievale, nei due piani delle "Salette Borgia" ed in alcuni spazi sotto la Cappella Sistina.

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[ru] Коллекция современного религиозного искусства

Коллекция современного религиозного искусства (итал. Collezione d'arte religiosa moderna) — открытая в 1973 г. галерея современного религиозного искусства в Ватикане.

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