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The
Accademia Carrara (pron. [kar'rara]) is an
art gallery and an
academy of
fine arts in
Bergamo,
Italy.
The origins of the art gallery lie with the Count Giacomo Carrara, a wealthy collector and patron of the arts, who left a generous legacy to the city of Bergamo at the end of the
XVIII century.
After the Count's death, in
1796, his properties were managed by a nominated commissary until
1958, when the Comune of Bergamo took over direct supervision. In
1810 a new building in the neoclassical style was constructed, the project being undertaken by the architect
Simone Elia, a pupil of
Leopoldo Pollack.
The museum has continued to augment its collections both with purchases and donations. As of 2006 it possesses 1,800 paintings dating from the
XV to the
XIX century, and by artists including
Pisanello,
Botticelli,
Bellini,Carpaccio,
Mantegna,
Raffaello,
Moroni,
Baschenis,
Fra Galgario,
Tiepolo,
Canaletto, and
Piccio.
Besides paintings, there are drawings and prints, bronzes, and sculptures as well as collections of porcelain, furniture and medals.
In
1793, at the same time as the public opening of his gallery, the Count Giacomo Carrara desired that drawing and painting courses be initiated in the same place. The school, which was located in the same building as the art gallery until
1912, now has its own premises nearby. Since
1988, it has been an officially recognized
Accademia di Belle Arti (Fine Arts Academy).
In
1991, the modern art gallery
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMEC) was opened across the road in a partially restored fourteenth-century monastery that had previously been used as a barracks. Presently, it has ten exhibition halls, on three floors. Since the purchase of the Gianfranco and Luigia Spajani collection in June
1999 the permanent collections have contained works by Italian and foreign artists of the
20th century including
Boccioni,
Balla,
Morandi,
Campigli,
Casorati,
Savinio,
De Chirico,
Kandinsky,
Sutherland, and
Manzù.
Catalogue of Paintings
See
Catalogue of the Pinacoteca of the Accademia CarraraFurther Information
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