 Façade of the Accademia | |
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| Established | after 1780 |
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| Coordinates | 45°42′15″N9°40′33″E / 45.7042°N 9.6758°E /45.7042; 9.6758 |
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| Founder | Giacomo Carrara |
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| Website | accademiabellearti |
TheAccademia Carrara, (Italian pronunciation:[karˈraːra]), officiallyAccademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is anart gallery and anacademy offine arts inBergamo, inLombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 byGiacomo Carrara [it], a Bergamasco collector orconoscitore of the arts.[1] Theacademy of fine arts was added to it in 1794.[2]: 293 The school was recognised by theMinistero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, in 1988[2]: 293 [3] and in 2023 merged with theConservatorio Gaetano Donizetti to form thePolitecnico delle Arti di Bergamo.[4]
The art gallery was established in the early 1780s byGiacomo Carrara [it], a Bergamasco collector orconoscitore of the arts; by 1785 it was open to some visitors. Anacademy of fine arts was added to it in 1793[1] or 1794,[2]: 293 initially under the direction of the Milanese painterCarlo Dionigi Sadis.[1]
Carrara made hiswill 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 byCostantino Gallizioli; it incorporated parts of earlier structures.[5] It was modified between 1808 and 1813 to designs inNeo-Classical style bySimone Elia [it], who had been a pupil ofLeopoldo Pollack at theAccademia di Brera.[5]
In 1958 theComune di Bergamo took over the management of the gallery and school,[2]: 293 which in 1988 was recognised by theMinistero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, and came under the administration of that ministry.[2]: 293 [3]
Thedirectors-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]
