In Bergamo for a spring with Lorenzo Lotto – Bergamo

Bergamo – Five hundred years ago Lorenzo Lotto Bergamo left after more than a decade of intense work: masterpieces such as the imposing Pala Martinengo or the frescoes of the Suardi Oratorium Bound to the Oobian city the memory of the master, who probably passed the most serene, fruitful and free period of all his career here. From April to August, Bergamo celebrates the birthday with a program of exhibitions and routes to the painter. Symbol of the initiative is the precious Pala di San BernardinoOne of the leaders of the Lotto production, temporarily transferred from the Bergamo -Kerk – in renovation of the same name – in the exhibition office of theCarrara Academy. The new Layout Offers Visitors An Unpublished Perspective On The Painting: Instead of Remotely and From the Bottom Up, As Dictated By The Placement On The Main Altar of the Church, Today It Is Exceptionally Possible to Observa’s Stestures of Characley, The Cancerage, The Canvas Charasely, The Gestures or Charassely, The Characley, The Characersy, The Characley, The Characers, Landscape and on the Clothes Rich in details, on the admirable Nature Dead with the Roses and the Signature of the Artist in the Foreground.

Admires by illustrious connoisseurs such as Bernard Berenson, Roberto Longhi and Sir Charles Eastlake, the Canvas presents a Madonna and Child under the Saints Giuseppe, Bernardino da Siena, Giovanni Battista, Antonio Abate and five English. Numerous elements of novelty, so that the composition is struggling with a very inventive work: from the outside environment to the large green draper rectum by four angels during the flight, which replaces the more traditional architectural structures. The fifth Angelo, in the middle of the stage, acts as an intermediary between the audience and the painted scene. An iconography that, according to Longhi Caravaggio, will inspire in the angel of Rest during the escape to EgyptToday in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome. .

The second phase that should not be missed in the footsteps is the visit to the permanent collection of the Carrara Academy, which is one of the most important struggles in the world with seven masterpieces by the artist. Iconic Portrait of young to those of Lucina Brembatito Mystical wedding from Santa Caterina d’AlessandriaHere it is possible to appreciate the multiple talents of the Veneto master: his inexhaustible compositive imagination, the feeling of color, the psychological attitude and the marked characteristic skills with which he opened a new chapter in the history of portraits. The route in the rooms of the museum Inside Lorenzo Lotto He returns the most striking points of the original language that plots grew up in Bergamo, and becomes the brightest interpreter of a new style, which is discovered in comparison with his Coeval masters and artists such as artists Giovanni BelliniAndrea Previtali and Giovanni Busi called Carani.

Always in Carrara a completely contemporary surprise awaits the artist fans: Le Photography Di Alex HütteOne of the most important German authors of our time invites you to look at the Renaissance master with new eyes. Research into light and natural colors, realism and involvement of the observer are the distinctive figures of the work of the photographer, among the protagonists of the so -called Düsseldorfer Photoschule. In the images of Hütte the works were painted by Lotto for the Bergamo churches related to the lights and architectures that accommodate them and restore the holy atmosphere. “He explains the selection of photos that are presented The curator Filippo Maggia – invites the viewer to consider what a work is in the work. The portraits of Lorenzo Lotto dialog with the space in a variety of perspective measurements that encourage the viewer to gradually approach the work, how to do it when, a visit to a church, the eye immediately recognizes the beautiful canvas in the chapel and records roughly the refined details. ”

The route continues in the streets of Bergamo and in the areas of worship, to discover some of the most important batch master works in their original context, or almost. In the church of the Saints Bartolomeo and Stefano, the famous Pala Martinengo Colleoni tells the first major company of the artist in the city, followed by Pala di Santo SpiritoTo be admired in the homonymous church. Other discoveries await us in Sant’alessandro on the cross, where the painting of the Three unitand in the basilica of Sant’alessandro in the column, with the Deposit of Christ. The frescoes of the Virgin chapelThe last Bergamo work of the master who lived there, while the choir of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore keeps enigmatic tarsie with the allegories designed by Lotto and cut in the wood by Giovan Francesco Capoferri. Finally, a real wealth awaits most entrepreneurial visitors outside the city walls: these are the frescoes ofSuardi Oratory from Trescore Balneario, decorated with the stories of the Sante Barbara, Caterina d’Alessandria, Brigida d’Ereland, Maria Maddalena, and made famous for the image of Christ-. He is all about Inside Lorenzo Lotto It will be independently accessible to the public or by participating in guided tours that can be booked between May and August on four weekends. All information is available on the website of the Carrara Academy, who will also be the theater from a cycle of meetings dedicated to the master from mid -mid -May.