Museo del Novecento
Fascist-era palazzo tower turned museum, its spiral ramp climbing past a landmark canvas of striking workers.
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The Museo del Novecento in Milan opens with the fascist-era balcony above its entrance, raised in the late 1930s as a stage from which the regime could address crowds in Piazza del Duomo, and the Allied bombing that left the tower roofless for most of a decade. Inside, the guide follows the spiral ramp up to Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo's Il Quarto Stato, a decade in the making and finished in 1901, and traces it back to 1898, the year troops under General Bava Beccaris opened fire on protesters in this same city. Pause where the ramp bends around the canvas, at the point where the painted crowd first comes level with you.
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