Founded in 1796 by Giacomo Carrara, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo is considered the museum of Italian collecting, as its collections are based entirely on bequests from enlightened patrons who wished to increase its heritage by making it available to the city and the community.
With over three hundred works on display - including paintings, sculptures, medals, and plaques - Accademia Carrara offers a five-century journey through the history of Italian art from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, amidst masterpieces and collecting history.
The museum's new exhibition layout, inaugurated in January 2023, is organized into sixteen rooms telling different stories. The first sequence is dedicated to Italian art between the Gothic and Renaissance periods in the Peninsula, with an emphasis on the significant core of works from the Po Valley and Venetian fifteenth century, featuring works by Pisanello, Mantegna, and Bellini, as well as contemporary Tuscan production, highlighted by paintings by Raphael and Botticelli. The second sequence, instead, outlines a path illustrating the figurative tradition between Lombardy and the Venetian mainland domains from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, with particular attention to the Bergamo context, where Lotto, Moroni, Baschenis, and Fra Galgario worked. The tour concludes with a section dedicated to the nineteenth century, characterized by a prevailing focus on Lombard production and a special look at the events and protagonists of the Accademia Carrara School of Painting.
To the masterpieces kept within the museum halls, from September 2024, the Accademia Carrara Foundation has added a further wonder: the PwC Gardens, a new shared space consisting of a new romantic park, a connecting walkway between the museum and the outdoors, and the new Bù Bistrot in Carrara: places where the museum's present dialogues with its past.
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