On Saturday 25 January 2025 at 3:00 pm in the Sala degli Affreschi of the Accademia Tadini, the series of conferences will begin as part of the project “Accademia Tadini: an open museum” funded by Fondazione Cariplo.

Those who work in museums are often led to favor the perspective of conservation, taking for granted that admission to a museum structure is the guarantee thanks to which a work of art is no longer at risk. In reality, a work of art is the result of a complex stratification of meanings: the historical context, the artist’s biography, but also the public’s perception are equally important aspects that must be protected. Does admission to a museum, even for the purposes of protection and enhancement, collect them all? Or are some put in crisis precisely by musealization?

Marco Albertario, art historian, trained at the Civic Museums of Pavia and then worked for the Civic Museums of Novara. Since 2005 he has been curator and since 2015 director of the Galleria dell’Accademia Tadini in Lovere. He teaches art history at the IIS Decio Celeri in Lovere (since 2019, experimental project) and since 2023 he has been a contract professor at the Scuola di Restauro di Botticino. His research interests include figurative production in the Sforza era, wooden sculpture, the history of collecting with particular attention to the first half of the nineteenth century. For the Accademia Tadini he followed the restoration and enhancement of the Stele Tadini by Antonio Canova, the study and reorganization of the porcelain collection, the recovery of the historical Library, the restoration of the Madonna with Child by Jacopo Bellini and the room that houses it, and of the Pala Manfron by Paris Bordon, he curated, also in collaboration, the exhibitions dedicated to Antonio Canova, Giorgio Oprandi, Cesare Tallone and Angelo Morbelli.

Text credits: Accademia Tadini
Cover image credits: G. Bonomelli