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nated an important amount of
sculptures from his collection.
The Accademia is one of the
most interesting museums of
the history of European collecting. The new arrangement
and the new criteria for its realization have been problematic, considering the doubling of the exhibition halls
and the exterior and interior
restoration with new lightings.
This solution has been very effective and has taken into account both the history of the
academy and that of the great
protagonists of the collection.
Accordingly, it dedicates monothematic rooms to Lorenzo
Lotto and Giovanni Battista
Moroni.
Originally named Jacopo
Nigretti,
Palma the Elder
was born in
Val Brembana
The museum is temporarily
in 1480. Haexhibiting works by Palma the
ving the same
Elder, a prominent figure of
age of Titian
the Venetian Renaissance, whiand Giorgioch touched not only Venice but
ne, the critics
also Bergamo, Padua, Verona,
have wrongly
and Vicenza – being them part
compared him
of the Venetian Republic.
to the greatness and master fulness of the two Venetian
painters. Despite being an important figure of the Venetian
cinquecento, Palma does not
equal the high level of Titian
and Giorgione, who, in effect,
revolutionized the color-technique.
Holy Conversations with a
translucent and glazed film.
The richness of colors and the
personifications of the flora
and the female beauty achieved great fortune. They were
indeed symptom of that change in taste that spread from
Venice throughout Europe
thanks also to Jacopo NigretAfter Giorgione’s death (1510), ti. An example is the Thyssen
like many other artists, Pal- Bornemisza collection in Mama moved to Venice. He was drid that houses two works of
adopting a new pictorial fa- Palma the Elder.
shion, painting women and
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