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Colleoni Chapel

Colleoni Chapel

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Location: Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

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Dirkster

February 25, 2024

Chapel and mausoleum attached to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

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🇮🇹 Gius-Mundo 🇪🇺

May 8, 2024

The funerary chapel built between 1472 and '77 next to the church of S. Maria Maggiore in Bergamo based on a design by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo is the most concrete testimony to the political and 'courtly' ambitions of Bartolomeo Colleoni, a small nobleman from the Bergamo countryside twenty years earlier, after a long military career, he became captain general of the Venetian militias on the mainland. In his old age, dealing with it personally, Colleoni chased the 'imperial' dream of having a mausoleum built, almost an obsession that united princes and leaders in the Renaissance (to stay in Lombardy, one can think of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Ludovico the Moor, to Gian Giacomo Trivulzio): "he who under the loggia of the Piazza Vecchia in Bergamo was portrayed next to Hercules, he who in Venice will be immortalized on horseback, like Marc'Aurelio or Regisole, by Verrocchio, asked in his homeland at the Amadeo a chromatic mausoleum.

Source: lombardiabeniculturali.it

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Nicola De Benedictis

June 16, 2024

The Upper Town is fantastic: infinite panoramic views

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Location: Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

Colleoni Chapel

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