Accademia Tadini

The Accademia Tadini is a museum and art gallery, as well as an academy of both visual arts and music in Lovere, Province of Bergamo, Italy. It is located on Via Tadini #40, facing the shores of Lago d'Iseo.

History

The Tadini Academy of Fine Arts has its roots in the interest and collections of Count Luigi Tadini of Verona (1745-1829). At the turn of the 18th-century, the count envisioned housing his collections in a proper setting. The family residence in Palazzo Barboglio facing the present Piazza Garibaldi proved too small; thus adjacent to this site, on the road linking Lovere and Bergamo, along the lake, he had his grandson, Sebastiano Salimbeni, a self-trained architect design the present palace. Work began in 1820 with the chapel, built to house the Stele Tadini (1819-1821), a work of Antonio Canova, and dedicated to his former friend, Faustino Tadini, son of the count who had died in 1799 at the age of 25. Faustino had published a book on the early work of Canova in 1796. By 1826, the Gallery building was complete. The interior decorations, both stucco and fresco, were designed and completed by Luigi Dell'Era. By 1828, the museum was open to the public. He intended the collections and decoration to be aids for the curriculum of the school of design.

The Piano Nobile displays the collection. In addition to the paintings, the collection includes archeologic pieces collected in Naples; porcelain from both the orient (China and Japan) and Europe (Meissen, Vienna, Sèvres, Naples, and Venice). The count has a collection of sculptures by Canova and Giovanni Maria Benzoni. The library includes nearly 4600 volumes. The great hall of the palace is used for both concerts and theatrical presentations. The second floor has a display of artifacts related to the Resorgimento era in Italy.

Among the paintings the count had eclectic acquisitions, including:

Madonna attributed to Jacobello di Bonomo

Madonna and Child by Francesco Benaglio

St Antony of Padua by Antonio and Bartolomeo Vivarini

Two altarpieces by Vincenzo Civerchio

Works from suppressed ecclesiastical institutions of Crema

Madonna and Child with Saints Christopher and George (Manfron altarpiece) by Paris Bordon

Flight to Egypt by Aurelio Busso

Resurrection by Jacopo Ligozzi

Ecce Homo by Paolo Farinati

Judith and Holofernes attributed to Bernardino Fusari

Prayer in Gesthemane by Pietro Ricchi

Madonna and Child by Jacopo Bellini

Madonna and Child and Saints by Palma il Giovane

Dead Christ and Angels by Pietro della Vecchia

Madonna and Child by Francesco Benaglio

Saints Francis and William by Domenico Brusasorci

Flight to Egypt by Felice Brusasorci

Joseph and Potiphar's wife by Carlo Francesco Nuvolone

Madonna di Loreto by Bernardino Campi

Flight to Egypt by Domenico Pecchio

Self-portrait by Antonio Cifrondi

Portrait of a Townsfolk by Cifrondi

Portrait of Friar with Lily by Fra Galgario

Ecce Homo and two other canvases by Francesco Hayez

The collection has also modern and contemporary works.

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