Object Description
131 GIACOMO CARRARA (1714-96) and his wife MARIA ANNA PASSI
Obv. Jugate busts to right. Around, lAC . COMES CARRARA MARIA ANNA PASSI VXOR; on truncation, F . CORAZZINI
Rev. Palace facade. Around, PRO BONIS ARTIBVS BERGOMI COLENDIS | PINACOTHECAM ET LYCEVM EREXERE
Bronze, struck, 45 mm.
Count Giacomo Carrara in his will of 3 March 1796 bequeathed to the city of Bergamo his entire art collection and a school of design. These are housed in a building designed by Simone Elia and completed in 1810. (G. Frizzoni, Le gallerie dell' Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Bergamo 1907, p. 13).
Bibl.: Forrer i, p. 458.