Bergamo, success for Cecco del Caravaggio exhibition, with 71,500 visitors

Respectable numbers for the exhibition Cecco del Caravaggio. The model pupil, which was held at theAccademia Carrara in Bergamo, and was curated by Gianni Papi(here is our review). The exhibition, the first dedicated to Francesco Boneri, known as Cecco del Caravaggio (c. 1585 - post 1620), as well as the first held at the completely renovated Accademia Carrara in the year of Bergamo Brescia Capital of Culture, totaled 71,500 visitors in four months.

The exhibition brought together at the Accademia Carrara 19 of Cecco’s approximately 30 known works, as well as two canvases by Caravaggio and 20 paintings by artists who inspired or were inspired by the artist. The success was confirmed by the tens of thousands of visitors who came to the exhibition, open from Jan. 28 to June 4. Other numbers: 1,308 groups booked, including 993 composed of adults and 315 school groups, and large turnout of individuals, 53.5 percent of whom came from the province of Bergamo, 34.4 percent from outside the province, 25 percent from the City of Bergamo, and 12 percent from abroad (in particular: Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Poland, United Kingdom, Spain, United States and Switzerland).

The next scheduled exhibition at Carrara is Vette di Luce (Peaks of Light), from June 23 to September 3, 2023, an initiative dedicated to the fascination of the high peaks, which relates nineteenth-century landscape painting to the photography of Naoki Ishikawa (Tokyo, 1977), as well as two routes in the territory and at high altitude for a “diffuse museum of the mountains.”

“Great was the success of the exhibition dedicated to Cecco del Caravaggio,” stressed Maria Cristina Rodeschini, director of the Carrara Academy. “Rewarded was the intention to offer an artist of value and interest who deserved to be known not only by specialists. The biographical story, albeit in sparse documentary anchors, but above all the catalog of works, reassembled by Gianni Papi over years of sharp and competent critical work, was appreciated by the large number of visitors who are always thought to be willing to approach only the best-known artists. The public is much more discerning than one would think, and the museum, as a place to do research, has been rewarded. The renewed ordering of the museum collections, also with the entry of the important collection of medals and plaques by Mario Scaglia, has launched the idea of an art place capable of renewing itself while always having the cultural enrichment of the visitor at the center of its thinking.”

“The results of these first months of 2023,” says Gianpietro Bonaldi, general manager of the Carrara Academy, “go far beyond expectations. The Cecco exhibition shines, a courageous discovery that the public and critics liked. But the Nuova Carrara shines overall, and that matters most of all. The new arrangement brought together at the historic site proves successful, well articulated between exhibition and museum, one supporting the other in a relationship that makes the visit a pleasure. Intense and enjoyable at the same time. The journey has just begun but the premises are convincing.”

Bergamo, success for Cecco del Caravaggio exhibition, with 71,500 visitors

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