Peachy at The Met: Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo May 15–September 3, 2012 Highly Recommended by Whom You Know!
Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, BergamoMay 15–September 3, 2012
The Accademia Carrara in Bergamo (northeast of Milan) is one of the jewels of Italian museums and a haven for art lovers. Founded at the end of the 18th century by Count Giacomo Carrara and housed in a beautiful neo-classical building, it contains a range of masterpieces dating from the 14th to the 19th century, with an outstanding collection of Renaissance Venetian, Lombard, and Florentine painting. Because it is currently closed for restoration, the Accademia Carrara will lend the Metropolitan Museum 15 masterpieces by Venetian and north Italian painters of the 15th and 16th centuries, including works by Bellini, Titian, and Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition will focus on the areas and specific works that make the Accademia Carrara collection so distinctive, including three predella panels painted by Lorenzo Lotto in 1516 that are masterpieces of devotional narrative; Giovanni Bellini’s hauntingly beautiful Pietà with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist (1465-1470); and Orpheus and Eurydice (ca. 1512), a poetic early work by Titian.
The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo. This collection is clearly quite the treat for everyone that visits The Met while it visits-a total must-see!
The Accademia Carrara in Bergamo (northeast of Milan) is one of the jewels of Italian museums and a haven for art lovers. Founded at the end of the 18th century by Count Giacomo Carrara and housed in a beautiful neo-classical building, it contains a range of masterpieces dating from the 14th to the 19th century, with an outstanding collection of Renaissance Venetian, Lombard, and Florentine painting. Because it is currently closed for restoration, the Accademia Carrara will lend the Metropolitan Museum 15 masterpieces by Venetian and north Italian painters of the 15th and 16th centuries, including works by Bellini, Titian, and Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition will focus on the areas and specific works that make the Accademia Carrara collection so distinctive, including three predella panels painted by Lorenzo Lotto in 1516 that are masterpieces of devotional narrative; Giovanni Bellini’s hauntingly beautiful Pietà with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist (1465-1470); and Orpheus and Eurydice (ca. 1512), a poetic early work by Titian.
The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo. This collection is clearly quite the treat for everyone that visits The Met while it visits-a total must-see!
