There are places of worship that do not wait to lose their function before becoming spaces for contemporary art. One such example is the Church of San Fedele in Milan, which has embraced contemporary art for decades and, a few years ago, also gave rise to the San Fedele Museum.
\nThere are also cases in which ecclesiastical spaces lose their original function but remain under the management of Church-related organizations and become arenas for dialogue with contemporary art. This is the case of the former Oratory of San Lupo in Bergamo, a fascinating two-level space built in the 18th century by architect Ferdinando Caccia for the youthful Confraternity of Death. It is managed by the Adriano Bernareggi Foundation, an instrument of the Diocese of Bergamo, and is described as \u201cparticularly attentive to the specific reasons that Christian culture seeks to share with anyone who seriously searches for the meaning of things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artinchurch-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n