The Accademia Carrara, (Italian pronunciation: [karˈraːra]), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by Giacomo Carrara, a Bergamasco collector or conoscitore of the arts.[1] The academy of fine arts was added to it in 1794.[2]: 293 The school was recognised by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, in 1988[2]: 293 [3] and in 2023 merged with the Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti to form the Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo.[4]
 Façade of the Accademia | |
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| Established | after 1780 |
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| Coordinates | 45°42′15″N 9°40′33″E / 45.7042°N 9.6758°E |
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| Founder | Giacomo Carrara |
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| Website | accademiabellearti |
History
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The art gallery was established in the early 1780s by Giacomo Carrara, a Bergamasco collector or conoscitore of the arts; by 1785 it was open to some visitors. An academy of fine arts was added to it in 1793[1] or 1794,[2]: 293 initially under the direction of the Milanese painter Carlo Dionigi Sadis.[1]
Carrara made his will in 1795, leaving his entire estate to the gallery and art school he had founded; these were to be managed by a five-member commission, of which the first five were chosen by him. He died the next year.[1]
The building was partly built by Carrara between 1775 and 1781 to designs by Costantino Gallizioli; it incorporated parts of earlier structures.[5] It was modified between 1808 and 1813 to designs in Neo-Classical style by Simone Elia, who had been a pupil of Leopoldo Pollack at the Accademia di Brera.[5]
In 1958 the Comune di Bergamo took over the management of the gallery and school,[2]: 293 which in 1988 was recognised by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, and came under the administration of that ministry.[2]: 293 [3]
Directors-general
editThe directors-general at the Accademia Carrara have been, in chronological order, Giuseppe Diotti, Enrico Scuri, Cesare Tallone, Ponziano Loverini, Luigi Brignoli, Achille Funi, Trento Longaretti, Pierluigi De Vecchi, Mario Cresci and Maria Grazia Recanati.[6]
See also
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- ^ a b c d Francesco Rossi (1977). Carrara, Giacomo (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 20. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed February 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Giovanna Cassese (2013). Accademie: Patrimoni di Belle Arti (in Italian). Rome: Gangemi Editore. ISBN 978-88-492-7671-8.
- ^ a b Accademie di belle arti (in Italian). Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca. Archived 17 July 2013.
- ^ "Nasce il primo Politecnico delle Arti d'Italia: fonde l'Accademia di Belle Arti Carrara e il Conservatorio Donizetti". Bergamo News. 19 January 2023.
- ^ a b Gianluca Kannès (1993). Elia, Simone (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 42. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed November 2023.
- ^ "Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti". Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti. Archived from the original on 2 January 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
Further reading
edit- Paolo Plebani, Maria Cristina Rodeschini, Giovanni Valagussa, Carrara Academy 100 masterpieces, Milan, Officina Libraria, 2015, ISBN 978-88-97737-59-9.