Chiesa di San Bernardino

Bergamo


Worth a visit for Lorenzo Lotto’s stylistically evolved altarpiece, the Pala di San Bernardino (1521), which depicts the Madonna beneath a dynamic, foreshortened canopy deep in intense conversation with her saintly companions.

Note the church's opening hours are very limited.


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