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Accademia Carrara
The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collector or ' of the arts. The academy of fine arts was added to it in 1794. The school was recognised by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, in 1988 and in 2023 merged with the Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti to form the Politecnico delle Arti di Bergamo. History The art gallery was established in the early 1780s by , a Bergamasco collector or ' of the arts; by 1785 it was open to some visitors. An academy of fine arts was added to it in 1793 or 1794, initially under the direction of the Milanese painter Carlo Dionigi Sadis. Carrara made his will Will may refer to: Common meanings * Will and testament, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death * Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Elia
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Accademia Di Brera
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public museum for art. In 2010 an agreement was signed to move the accademia to a former military barracks, the Caserma Magenta in via Mascheroni. In 2018 it was announced that Caserma Magenta was no longer a viable option, with the former railway yard in Via Farini now under consideration as a potential venue for the campus extension. History The academy was founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa of Austria. In typical Enlightenment fashion, it shared premises with other cultural and scientific institutions – the astronomical observatory, the Orto Botanico di Brera, the Scuole Palatine for philosophy and law, the Gymnasium, laboratories for physics and chemistry, the Biblioteca di Brera, the agricultural society and, from 1806, the Pinacoteca di Brer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catalogue Of The Pinacoteca Of The Accademia Carrara
This is a list of the works in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo, with artists and works from before the 20th century featured in the painting gallery (Italian: ''Pinacoteca'') of the museum. Painters with surnames A–C Painters with surnames D–L Painters with surnames M–R Painters with surnames S–Z Notes Accademia Carraraon website of Lombardia Beni Culturali {{DEFAULTSORT:Catalogue Of The Pinacoteca Of The Accademia Carrara Carrara Carrara ( ; ; , ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey Carrara marble, marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, ... Carrera Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierluigi De Vecchi
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Trento Longaretti
Trento Longaretti (27 September 1916 – 7 June 2017) was an Italian painter. He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists, including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini. He stated that painting is an "elixir for long life", and continued to paint and exhibit as a centenarian. He was on the fringes of the ''Corrente'' movement started by his friends and classmates in the 1930s to oppose the Novecento Italiano movement that was influenced by Italian Fascism. He was drafted by the Italian Army in 1939, completing tours of duty that until 1945 interrupted his artwork, though still enabling him to attend several exhibitions, including the ''Mostra degli artisti in armi'' exhibit at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The themes of his post-war works involved more sacred art, and he adopted an anti-war stance and opposition to violence as a result of his wartime service, which feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Funi
Achille Funi (26 February 1890 – 26 July 1972) was an Italian painter who painted in a Modernist take on the Neoclassical style. Biography Funi was born in Ferrara, Italy. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1910 and joined the Nuove Tendenze movement as a painter of Cubo-Futurist works in 1914.Cowling and Mundy 1990, p. 106. Having enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion and served in World War I, he became a champion of the return to order. He studied Graeco-Roman statuary and was influenced by de Chirico's Metaphysical painting. His ''Autoritratto da giovane'' ("Self-portrait as a Young Man"; 1924) is in the Museo Cantonale d’Arte in Lugano. In 1920, Funi met the journalist and art patron Margherita Sarfatti, who took an interest in him as one of a group of artists whose work she believed represented modern Italy. He participated in an exhibition Sarfatti presented in 1923 entitled ''Sette Pittori del Novecento'' ("Seven Painters of the Twentiet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luigi Brignoli
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Ponziano Loverini
Ponziano Loverini (July 6, 1845 – August 21, 1929) was an Italian painter, known primarily for his canvases and frescoes of sacred subjects. Biography Born in Gandino to a humble but pious tailor, Ponziano was helped by his uncle to enroll (1858) at the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. A stipend from the city of Gandino sponsored his art study. There, he was a pupil of the painter Enrico Scuri. In 1881, he exhibited at Milan: ''St Bishop Philastrius''; in 1884 at Turin he exhibited the large canvas depicting ''St Francis entering a monastic order''. He exhibited at Milan a canvas depicting young nudes before a white background. In 1887 at Venice, he exhibited ''Coeci vident''. Among other works: ''Studi dal vero''; ''Il prediletto della nonna'' were exhibited at Milan in 1886. In 1887, he painted a large canvas of ''San Grata'' in honor of the priestly jubilee of Pope Leo XIII, which was sent to the Vatican Pinacoteca. He married in 1880, and had four children, but the deaths of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Tallone
Cesare Tallone (11 August 1853 – 21 June 1919) was an Italian painter. Biography Born in Savona, Italy, and after losing his father at the age of ten, Tallone moved with his mother and sisters to Alessandria, where he became a pupil of the decorative artist Pietro Sassi. Some members of the local bourgeoisie commissioned the first portraits from him and persuaded the City Council to finance his studies. Thanks to this financial aid, Tallone was able to enrol in the Brera Academy in 1872, studying under Raffaele Casnedi, Luigi Riccardi and Giuseppe Bertini until 1880. His talent was obvious from his very first works and was recognised by Francesco Hayez, who allowed him the use of his own studio near the Academy. An active participant in the lively cultural milieu in Milan and member of the Famiglia Artistica since its foundation in 1873 by Vespasiano Bignami. He won the triennial combined schools of painting competition at the Brera exhibition in 1879, with a historical s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Scuri
Enrico Scuri (April 26, 1805 – 1884) was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style. Biography He was born and died in Bergamo. By 13 years of age, he became a pupil of Giuseppe Diotti, where he overlapped with Francesco Coghetti and Giovanni Carnovali. He was prolific. He painted the cupola of the Sanctuary of the Incoronata at Lodi in Lombardy. He also frescoed the cupola of the Immacolata in Bergamo, the frescoes in the church of Sant'Alessandro in Zebedia in Milan, and frescoes in the church of Stezzano. He frescoed four medallions in a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Alessandro Saul, in the church of Sant' Alessandro in Milan. Among his paintings of sacred subjects are the following: ''St Simon Stock, receives the scapular from the Virgin Mary'', altarpiece commissioned by the fabbriceria of Calolzio; ''Saints Nazarius and Celsus condemned to Martyrdom'' commissioned by the fabbriceria of Urgnano; ''Saint Helen and the Miracle of the Cross'', commissioned by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Diotti
Francesco Giuseppe Antonio Diotti (1 March 177930 January 1846) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassicism, Neoclassic style. He was strongly influenced by the academic styles of both Gaspare Landi and Vincenzo Camuccini. He painted in fresco as well as in oil, distinguishing himself as a painter of historical subjects. Biography Early life and education Francesco Giuseppe Antonio Diotti was born in Casalmaggiore on 1 March 1779. He initially was apprenticed in his hometown to Paolo Araldi. As a teenager, until 1796, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Parma under the history painter Gaetano Callani. Despite initial support from the financier Gian Vincenzo Ponzoni, by the late 1790s he was having to earn money through small decorating jobs and sign-painting. However, Diotti had learnt from the luminosity and sense of colour of Emilian fresco painting as practised by Andrea Appiani, who became his friend and supporter after 1800 when Diotti arrived in Milan. In 1804 he wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Director-general
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