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Tadini Academy of Fine Arts

The Palace, Count Luigi Tadini’s personal project and seat of the Tadini Academy of fine arts, was built between 1821 and 1826 to display his art collection in its frescoed rooms.
The Gallery of the Tadini Academy, open to the public after Count Tadini’s death in 1828, is the oldest 19th century museum in Lombardy and has preserved to the present day its own identity and original design.
The very core of the Galley are the masterpieces by Antonio Canova, with whom Count Tadini enjoyed a long, intense friendship: the rare terracotta sketch Religione and the Stele Tadini, sculpted in memory of Faustino, count Tadini’s son, and located in the chapel in the centre of the garden.
Among the paintings in the Gallery are various works of art by Jacopo Bellini, Paris Bordon, fra’ Galgario, Pitochetto besides masterpieces by Francesco Hayez which offer an interesting documentation of the Italian Art from 14th to 19th centuries.
The elegant biscuit works of art, among which the Judgment of Paris by Filippo Tagliolini, or the fragile painted porcelain from Meissen, Sevres, Paris and Naples enable curious visitor to discover the Neoclassical taste and understand Count Tadini’s eclectic nature more deeply.
The second floor houses the Museum of the nineteenth century, which offers documentation on the main artistic and social phenomena of the Sebino area, and includes masterpieces by Francesco Hayez, Cesare Tallone, Angelo Morbelli, as well as significant documentation by Giorgio Oprandi, among the most sensitive interpreters of the colonial season, and Giovanni Trussardi Volpi.
The Tadini Academy, an ancient museum deeply rooted in contemporary times, opened in 2004 a new section which documents the most recent developments in modern art in Italy and Europe, exhibited in very evocative areas in the modern art section.
After being closed for one hundred years, the Tadini Academy historic library reopened to the public in May 2013 following meticulous maintenance and restoration works. It is of particular interest because of its ancient foundation and its collector’s personality, Count Luigi Tadini.
The Tadini Academy is therefore a complex, variegated cultural reality. It has housed the schools of fine arts for more than two hundred years: music, painting and drawing, which still represent a living presence in the area today.
A prestigious concert season with international musicians has been held at the Tadini Academy every year since 1927.

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