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Colleoni Chapel

Colleoni Chapel

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Colleoni Chapel

Name: Colleoni Chapel
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Location: Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

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Patrick

September 1, 2025

The Colleoni Chapel is the mausoleum of the Bergamo condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni, which he commissioned in the religious and political heart of his city. In 1470, the elderly Colleoni had reached the end of a glorious career and wanted to leave a unique monument, capable of perpetuating the memory of his deeds and of himself as an undefeated condottiero, a man of faith and great virtue. The usual type of fifteenth-century funerary chapel thus transformed into a place of remembrance, where personal, political, and religious messages were passed down. Some great Lombard condottieri and statesmen of the fifteenth century desired a monumental chapel as their burial place, but only Colleoni built it as a freestanding structure with direct access from the town square. Its construction was entrusted to the architect-sculptor Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, who created an innovative Renaissance-style structure, transcending the late Gothic style still prevalent in the city. After the ancient sacristy of the nearby Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore was demolished, the superb building was erected in its place between 1472 and 1477. The commissioner intended it to occupy the backdrop of a large square to be created by demolishing the Palazzo della Ragione, which Colleoni had requested from the Municipality of Bergamo, but fortunately was not granted. In these ambitions, Bartolomeo was very similar to other great mercenary captains of the time, who, like Federico da Montefeltro, Ludovico Gonzaga, or Francesco Sforza, commissioned grandiose works: for them, artistic patronage was a means of asserting their acquired power and their own moral, civil, and military stature to their contemporaries and passing it on to posterity.
(c) cappellacolleoni.smilevisit.it/museo.aspx?id=09ec4ada-da52-42c1-8bb6-7a5adfb3e7f6

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Elevation 420 m

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