On the 500th anniversary of Lorenzo Lotto’s departure from Bergamo, Accademia Carrara presents a preservation and enhancement project dedicated to the San Bernardino Altarpiece, enhanced by the photographs of Axel Hütte.
Realized in collaboration with the City and Diocese of Bergamo, the Parish of Sant’Alessandro della Croce and the Adriano Bernareggi Foundation, the project celebrates the Venetian master by exceptionally hosting the San Bernardino Altarpiece, a masterpiece from the church of the same name, located just 500 meters from the museum and currently closed to the public. Lotto spent the years from 1513 to 1525 in Bergamo, one of the most creative and free periods of his career, during which he created the altarpiece for the lay confraternity of the Disciplini of Bergamo.
“Inside Lorenzo Lotto” will also be enriched by a photographic section curated by Filippo Maggia, with works by Axel Hütte (1951)-among the leading exponents of the Düsseldorf school-dedicated to Lotto’s paintings preserved in Bergamo and the surrounding area. The photographic selection will offer a visual synthesis between the interpretation of Lotto’s works and the memory of the places where they are kept, inviting the viewer to a contemplation that becomes itself a work within the work.