The second floor, overlooking the 15th-century courtyard, opens with graphic decorations and 18th-century frescoes by Domenico Ghislandi of Bergamo (17th cent.) and is mainly occupied by more recent and contemporary works by Bergamasque artists and some paintings by Rubaldo Merello, a painter active between the 19th and 20th centuries.
The most important piece on display today and of considerable historical interest is undoubtedly the 14th century “Gold Ground”.
The painting, tempera on panel measuring 57 x 77 centimeters, originally housed in the church of Santa Croce in Rimini, has recently been attributed to the mastery of Neri di Mone, a painter, active in Florence in the 1300s and among the heirs of Taddeo Gaddi.
From the Renaissance period with Giovanni Cariani, Bernardino Licinio, Jan Mostaert and Paul Brill through the still lifes of Bartolomeo Bettera, Jan Fyt and Jan van Kessel and to the Baroque of Carlo Ceresa and Giuseppe Ghislandi.
This is followed by the Romantics Francesco Hayez and Giovanni Carnovali and in the same period Angelo Dall’Oca Bianca with his depictions of peasant life.
They close for pointillism: Attilio Pratella and Ottone Rosai.
