Velázquez 17.06 | 28.08.2022 From the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Portrait of Queen Maria Anna of Austria, one of the last masterpieces by the master of masters Velázquez (1599-1660), arrives at Accademia Carrara. The portrait of Mariana of Austria in the galleries of the Accademia Carrara brings memories of Spain to Bergamo. It draws […]

Piccio in Carrara 11.03 – 12.06.2022 From 11 March to 12 June 2022, at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, three exceptional new loans illustrate the art of Giovanni Carnovali, called Piccio, one of the most experimental artists of the nineteenth century.   The exhibition is curated by the director M. Cristina Rodeschini, who invites the […]

Fondazione Accademia Carrara and the City of Bergamo present Maestri. Dal Rinascimento all’Ottocento From 12 August 2021 to 3 January 2022 at the Bund One Art Museum in Shanghai, in collaboration with Arthemisia, the exhibition Maestri. Dal Rinascimento all’Ottocento is the first international post-pandemic cultural event. The project is being launched with the most important institutions […]

Rembrandt in una storia meravigliosa 09.07.2021 – 17.10.2021 With the exceptional loan of Rembrandt’s self-portrait from the Rijksmuseum Museum in Amsterdam, through the project “Una storia meravigliosa,” Accademia Carrara invites visitors to discover Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self Portrait, explore the museum through a production dedicated to the exceptional painter together with other Flemish and Italian paintings. […]

Fra Galgario | Portrait of a Young Gentleman The Accademia Carrara has greeted with great enthusiasm the arrival of the magnificent painting by Fra Galgario. The work, which is on permanent loan from the Direzione Regionale Musei Lombardia, was purchased by the Italian State to secure it forever as part of the public heritage. The […]

Tiziano in Bergamo     After the Metropolitan’s The Musicians by Caravaggio, this extremely sensual painting, in which Titian celebrates the passionate love of Mars for Venus, is the second magnificent off-shoot from the exhibition devoted to Simone Peterzano put on by the Accademia Carrara. The Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna has offered Mars, Venus and […]

Caravaggio in Bergamo 22.05 – 31.08.2020 New York and Bergamo are looking to the future together, through the lens of art and solidarity. The two cities, both at the very heart of the pandemic, have become the symbols of a new beginning. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has offered The Musicians by […]

Tiziano e Caravaggio in Peterzano 6 February | 17 May 2020 The latest major exhibition event at the Accademia Carrara is another world first. A pupil of Titian and the master of Caravaggio, Simone Peterzano was a crucial figure in the art of the Renaissance. In his painting we find Venetian colours and the down-to-earth […]

IN DONO ALLA CITTA’     With its centuries-old history, the Carrara has been, and continues to be, loved by collectors, who identify with the art patrons of the past. All are united by the grand idea and bequest of the founder, Giacomo Carrara. After him came Guglielmo Lochis, Giovanni Morelli, Federico Zeri, and many […]

UGO LA PIETRA Opere, installazioni, film d’artista 27 ottobre 2019 – 6 gennaio 2020   Curated by M. Cristina Rodeschini and Ugo La Pietra with the collaboration of Michela Bassanelli Accademia Carrara / GAMeC, Bergamo   photo Aurelia Raffo   Creating an open dialogue between ancient and contemporary art, between various forms of expression, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]