Bergamo. Shines again one of the most important art museums. New exhibition with over 600 works, and major adjustments in terms of technology in the service of the public and of the same works
VALENTINA TOSONI A real treasure containing works of art of great value has reopened its doors to the public, after seven years, on 23 April. The Accademia Carrara in Bergamo now presents itself in a different guise, completely renovated and with some important news: the refurbishment of the neoclassical, the new arrangement, the campaign of restoration of the masterpieces, the full upgrade services for the public and the enhancement of the collection in Italy and worldwide. It was a fast paced and it took 12 million euro of investments, (the City Council supported the action with over 10, to which must be added the funding of 1,250,000 Euros Foundation Credito Bergamasco which allowed to complete the museum exhibition) and now Bergamo is very proud of its most important museum. Born in 1796 from the idea of the noble visionary Bergamo Count Giacomo Carrara, the Academy stands in the Italian art scene for identity and quality of its assets and is one of the most fascinating collections of ancient and Renaissance art in the world. Today, the new Carrara, is also designed as a model of the museum for the twenty-first century. The main new features are found in the path and the distribution of space.
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consisting of twenty-eight rooms, the first floor and thirteen to fifteen according to which are added the educational department, the museum shop and video room. Then the presence of abundant technological support that made the new Carrara more efficient, more comfortable, and can accommodate a much different age.
During the years of architectural restoration, served to intervene on the historic neoclassical building, designed by Simone Elia, was also redesigned the museum. In fact, the ordering of the permanent collection, which includes a total of more than 600 works on display, including paintings, a large majority, and sculptures, has been modified in chronological order: the five centuries you travel from the fifteenth century until the late nineteenth century , passing the most important Italian schools of painting, from Lombardy to the Veneto, Piedmont and Emilia Romagna, Tuscany Umbria and there looks to painting beyond the Alps, especially to Flanders and Holland. So, the biggest names in art history between the fifteenth and nineteenth century, we will meet in the timeline and we are talking about Donatello, Pisanello, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Baschenis, Among Galgario, Tiepolo, Canaletto and Piccio; the Accademia Carrara also boasts the most extensive corpus in the world of Lorenzo Lotto and Giovan Battista Moroni. Many then the recovery and restoration-of the works that have affected a number of masterpieces including the San Sebastian by Raphael (1501), the Madonna and Child by Andrea Mantegna (1480), Portrait of the young Giovanni Bellini (1475-78), The Portrait of a Lady by Giovan Battista Moroni (1570), the Madonna and Child by Carlo Crivelli (1480-83), the St. Ambrose baptizes Augustine of Antonio Vivarini (1435-40), the Portrait of a Young Girl with a Fan of Pitocchetto (1740) as well as works by Cima da Conegliano, Pinturicchio, Altobello Melone, Giovan Battista Tiepolo.
Just recently it did the Fondazione Accademia Carrara and with the signing took place on the morning of Thursday, June 25, is officially started the new management course Pinacoteca di Bergamo. The Foundation will be responsible for promoting public enjoyment of the artistic heritage, in line with the principles set by its original founder or “promote the study of fine arts in order to benefit the country and the next.” The Board of Directors will appoint the future director of Carrara , who will be joined also by a scientific committee and an advisory board: “It is a very important step – has stressed the Mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori, and president of the Foundation – that will provide the Accademia Carrara of modern governance and able to respond more effectively to the many needs required by a gallery of such a high level and prestige. “The work of enhancing the rich heritage has already partially materialized with the creation of exhibitions, designed in collaboration with prestigious museums abroad , Austria, Russia, the United States, opening more to the Accademia Carrara that will allow a greater spread of the greatness of the Italian Renaissance.
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