Description of the attraction
The Carrara Academy is a renowned art academy and art gallery located in the Italian city of Bergamo. It is believed that the founder of the academy was Count Giacomo Carrare, a renowned philanthropist and collector who donated a vast collection of works of art to Bergamo at the end of the 18th century. After the death of the count in 1796 and until 1958, specially appointed commissioners ruled this meeting, and in the second half of the 20th century, the city municipality took over the management.
In 1810, a separate building was built to store the Carrare collection, designed by the architect Simon Elia. Due to purchases and numerous donations, the collection of the gallery's works grew and grew incessantly. In 2006, there were about 1800 works of the 15-19th centuries, among which you can see the masterpieces of such masters as Botticelli, Bellini, Raphael, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Pisanello, etc. In addition to paintings, there are drawings, engravings, products from bronzes and porcelain, sculptures, furniture and medals.
As for the Academy of Arts, until 1912 it was located in the same building as the gallery, and was called the "school of drawing and painting". In 1988, it was transformed into the Academy of Fine Arts, which today is located in a separate building adjacent to the gallery. And in 1991, next to it, in the restored building of the former nunnery, the Gallery of Modern Art was founded, in which today in 10 exhibition halls the works of the greatest masters of the 20th century are presented - Bocioni, Morandi, Kazorati, Kandinsky, Manzu, etc..d.
