Accademia Carrara
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[[Image:Bergamo accademia carrara esterno.jpg|thumb|250px|The front view of the Accademia Carrara.]]
The '''Accademia Carrara''' (pron. [{{IPA|kar'rara}}]) is an [[art gallery]] and an [[academy]] of [[fine arts]] in [[Bergamo]], [[Italy]].
The origins of the art gallery lie with the Count Giacomo Carrara, a wealthy collector and patron of the arts, who left a generous legacy to the city of Bergamo at the end of the [[XVIII century]].
After the Count's death, in 1796, his properties were managed by a nominated commissary until 1958, when the Comune of Bergamo took over direct supervision. In 1810 a new building in the neoclassical style was constructed, the project being undertaken by the architect [[Simone Elia]], a pupil of [[Leopoldo Pollack]].
[[Image:Raffael 021.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[St. Sebastian]]'' by [[Raphael]] 1501/1502.]]
The museum has continued to augment its collections both with purchases and donations. As of 2006 it possesses 1,800 paintings dating from the [[XV century|XV]] to the [[XIX century]], and by artists including [[Pisanello]], [[Sandro Botticelli|Botticelli]], [[Giovanni Bellini|Bellini]],Carpaccio, [[Andrea Mantegna|Mantegna]], [[Raffaello Sanzio|Raffaello]], [[Giovanni Battista Moroni|Moroni]], [[Evaristo Baschenis|Baschenis]], [[Fra' Galgario|Fra Galgario]], [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo|Tiepolo]], [[Giovanni Antonio Canal|Canaletto]], and [[Giovanni Carnovali|Piccio]].
Besides paintings, there are drawings and prints, bronzes, and sculptures as well as collections of porcelain, furniture and medals.
In 1793, at the same time as the public opening of his gallery, the Count Giacomo Carrara desired that drawing and painting courses be initiated in the same place. The school, which was located in the same building as the art gallery until 1912, now has its own premises nearby. Since 1988, it has been an officially recognized ''Accademia di Belle Arti'' (Fine Arts Academy).
In 1991, the modern art gallery ''Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea'' (GAMEC) was opened across the road in a partially restored fourteenth-century monastery that had previously been used as a barracks. Presently, it has ten exhibition halls, on three floors. Since the purchase of the Gianfranco and Luigia Spajani collection in June 1999 the permanent collections have contained works by Italian and foreign artists of the 20th century including [[Umberto Boccioni|Boccioni]], [[Giacomo Balla|Balla]], [[Giorgio Morandi|Morandi]], [[Massimo Campigli|Campigli]], [[Felice Casorati (pittore)|Casorati]], [[Alberto Savinio|Savinio]], [[Giorgio De Chirico|De Chirico]], [[Vasily Kandinsky|Kandinsky]], [[Graham Sutherland|Sutherland]], and [[Giacomo Manzù|Manzù]].
==Catalogue of Paintings==
See [[Catalogue of the Pinacoteca of the Accademia Carrara]]
==External links==
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* [http://www.accademiacarrara.bergamo.it/ Accademia Carrara website]
* [http://www.gamec.it/ GAMEC website]
[[Category:Art museums and galleries in Italy]]
[[Category:Bergamo]]
[[Category:Lombardy]]
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