ARTE di MODA Giardini di Seta. Vittorio Accornero per Gucci 14 September 2019 – 21 October 2019     Hosted in the evocative spaces of the Accademia Carrara, the collection designed for Gucci by Vittorio Accornero (Casale Monferrato, 1896 – Milan, 1982) includes thirty-six scarves, plus two dresses, some of which unseen before. These highly […]

Close-up   Accademia Carrara proposes its new appointment Vista da Vicino with a special initiative Close-Up, detailed analysis of some masterpieces of the Museum in English.   The young art historians who are currently doing their internship at the Museum will provide an in-depth description of museum’s collection.   Close-Up / Vista da Vicino is […]

RE • M MANTEGNA BERGAMO 25 April-21 July 2019 curated by Antonio Mazzotta and Giovanni Valagussa   Newly attributed to the Master of the Venetian Renaissance and recently restored and shown in London and Berlin, Andrea Mantegna’s The Resurrection of Christ returns to the Accademia Carrara, at the centre of an innovative exhibition. An immersive, […]

Moroni in black 9.02.2019 | 10.06.2019     While Giovan Battista Moroni’s portraits of Spini and his wife are on loan to the Frick Collection in New York for the exhibition Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture, the Museum is showing a selection of works by Gianriccardo Piccoli that offer a contemporary take on the […]

Le Storie di Botticelli tra Boston e Bergamo Story of Lucrezia (dettaglio) di Sandro Botticelli, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum di Boston   12.10.2018 – 28.01.2019 in Accademia Carrara   Two paintings on wood of significant size, made by Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1445-1510), one of the best-loved artists of the Renaissance, become exceptional companion pieces, forming […]

A new masterpiece by Mantegna. La Resurrezione. The Resurrection, a painting on wood measuring 48,5 x 37,5 cm, was purchased in 1846 by Guglielmo Lochis as a work by Mantegna. It was later downgraded to a studio production. It is in actual fact a work of superb quality, and the upper part of the famous […]

Cariani The Locatello Triptych   The two paintings by Cariani – the Saint Catherine and the Saint Stephen – came to the Accademia Carrara in 1866 from the collection of Guglielmo Lochis, who had purchased them in 1837. They were originally made for an altar in the parish church of Locatello in the Valle Imagna, […]

The Raffaello e l’Eco del Mito exhibition takes its cue from the Saint Sebastian, a masterpiece by the young Raphael in the Accademia Carrara collection. The exhibition paints a full picture of Raphael’s training and retraces the extraordinary success of the artist since the nineteenth century, when the precious painting arrived in Bergamo.     The exhibition begins […]

The Accademia Carrara and the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo of Brescia are in many ways sister institutions, and the cultural ties between them date back a long way. The strength of this bond has now led to the first joint project in the centuries-old history of the museums, both of which have embarked on a major […]

This masterpiece by the Flemish artist Antoon van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 – London 1641) opens a new series that the Museum is devoting to the great names of European painting. Italian culture has evolved spectacularly and persistently over the centuries, throughout the whole country, but it has often run the risk of turning in on […]

In Viaggio   Ispirandosi al tema del viaggio scelto per i CRE-GREST dell’estate 2016, l’Accademia Carrara propone una serie di attività e percorsi destinati ai bambini dai 6 ai 10 anni e ai ragazzi dagli 11 ai 13 anni, per incontrare autori e opere, mondi e narrazioni. Ogni partecipante realizzerà “qualcosa di suo” da condividere […]

Xavier Salomon. Paolo Veronese a Torcello mercoledì 11 maggio 2016 ore 17.30 sala 18   Xavier Salomon della Frick Collection di New York interviene in Accademia Carrara sul dipinto Santa Cristina distribuisce ai poveri i frammenti degli idoli, attribuito a Paolo Veronese e bottega, esposto in sala 18. L’opera, giunta nel 1866 in Accademia Carrara con la Collezione Guglielmo Lochis, apparteneva a […]

Primo appuntamento dedicato a Giovanni Morelli con Jaynie Anderson  Al via la prima delle sei conversazione dedicate a Giovanni Morelli, nell’anno del bicentenario della nascita del grande storico dell’arte e alla sua collezione d’arte oggi conservata presso Accademia Carrara. Jaynie Anderson, professore emerito presso l’Università di Melbourne e tra le personalità più attive nel campo della storia dell’arte internazionale,delineerà un […]

Programma Venerdì 22 aprile Ore 21.00  Incontro con Jaynie Anderson 
Dietro lo pseudonimo: una biografia 
di Giovanni Morelli   Sabato 23 aprile  Ore 11.30, 15.00, 17.00 
 Vista da vicino Valentina Simone presenta tre opere scelte del museo   Ore 21.00  Musica in museo, 
experimental performance 
in solo con Enrico Merlin   Domenica 24 aprile […]

Letture Morelliane    Giovanni Morelli nasceva a Verona il 25 febbraio 1816. Sono trascorsi 200 anni dalla nascita di questo personaggio, che fu grande uomo di cultura, attivo sostenitore della causa dell’unità italiana e senatore nei primi parlamenti del Regno d’Italia, ma che è stato soprattutto uno dei più celebri conoscitori d’arte dell’Ottocento e tra […]

Per cinque weekend, dal 16 aprile al 15 maggio 2016, un unico biglietto per visitare Accademia Carrara e Museo di Palazzo Moroni. Prosegue la collaborazione tra Accademia Carrara e Museo di Palazzo Moroni. Dopo il grande successo di IO SONO IL SARTO. Moroni a Bergamo, apertura congiunta e biglietto unico accompagnano i visitatori nelle due […]

WELCOME OUR NEW GUEST: CARLO CRIVELLI One of the masterpieces of the Venetian painter is arriving in Bergamo from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and for the first time will be meeting the work of the Carrara collection.     In Bergamo we have, thanks to the collaboration of the Victoria and Albert […]

I AM THE TAILOR | MORONI In BERGAMO the masterpiece of the National Gallery and the paintings of the great portraitist December 4 2015 – February 28 2016   In Bergamo, on the occasion of an extraordinary return, we present an exciting exhibition dedicated to Giovan Battista Moroni, painter and astonishing portraitist born in Albino in 1522. A […]

24 aprile 2015 dalle ore 9.30 in avanti “99CUBI dal cubo di vetro ai cubi di scuola” Evento dell’Accademia di Belle arti G. Carrara dedicato alla riapertura del museo   www.accademiabellearti.bg.it