ACCADEMIA CARRARA
HISTORY
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The building that houses the collection was designed by the architect Simone Elia. It was completed in 1810 and also comprised the premises of Carrara’s Painting School. At the beginning of the...
HALL 2 AND HALL 3
2.33
The first work you’ll see is a splendid, little painting entitled “Ritratto di Lionello d’Este” (Portrait of Lionello d’Este), a portrait made in 1441 of the Marquis of...
HALL 10
2.34
In this room, I suggest you stop to admire the portrait of “Lucina Brembati”, a close-up of a female figure of early-sixteenth-century Bergamo, painted by the great Venetian Renaissance...
HALL 11
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This room is dedicated to the austere, melancholy portraits painted between 1570 and 1575 by Giovan Battista Moroni. Originally from near Bergamo, Moroni is known for his sublime portraits of the...
HALL 12 AND 13
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This room is dedicated to portraits by Bergamo’s most important painter, Vittore Ghislandi, better known as Fra’ Galgario, or Friar Galgario: in 1675, at the age of barely 20, the artist...
