Bernabò Home Gallery was born in 2017 in the evocative setting of Trezzo sull'Adda from the idea of its founder Laura Piangerelli of wanting to compose a range of selected artists of national and international importance. Specializing in modern and contemporary art, Bernabò Home Gallery adopts an innovative and intimate approach different from the classic art gallery
Together with its permanent exhibition spaces, the Gallery has organized and continues to propose, in collaboration with its artists, exhibitions and events of national importance.
About us
Bernabò Home Gallery was founded in 2017 in the evocative setting of Trezzo sull'Adda by the idea of its founder Laura Piangerelli to want to compose a range of selected artists of national and international importance. Specializing in modern and contemporary art Bernabò Home Gallery adopts an innovative and intimate approach different from the classic art gallery.
Together with its permanent exhibition spaces, the Gallery has organized and continues to propose, in collaboration with its artists, exhibitions and events of national importance.
The story
According to tradition, during a stormy night, a woman climbed to the top of the tower, driven by grief, by the wind, and by a force greater than herself. Lightning struck her, transforming her into a fig tree. From that extreme gesture, from that tragic metamorphosis, the tree that still inhabits the summit of the castle was born.
Like every legend, this one too preserves a deeper symbolic truth: what seems fragile can withstand time; what is born from a wound can turn into memory; what roots itself in history can continue to generate life.
Bernabò Home Gallery has chosen that tree as part of its identity because it recognizes its silent strength.
A tree born from stone.
A root that resists.
A sign that crosses through time.
A presence capable of uniting memory, beauty, and transformation.
These are the same values that guide the gallery: preserving history, recognizing value, and leading the eye toward what is destined to endure.
Art, like that tree, lives through roots and vision.
It is born from matter, from history, from a hand, yet it continues to change meaning in the gaze of those who encounter it.
For this reason, Bernabò is not merely a name.
It is an origin.
It is a symbol.
It is a promise of continuity between past and future.
Bernabò Home Gallery carries this legacy with it: the strength of memory, the elegance of research, and the ability to recognize in artworks not only beauty, but what remains.
But according to legend, it is one of his lovers - a peasant convinced that she can trick him and outwit him - who is behind the birth of the tree. The woman had willingly let herself be taken to the castle, confident that she would be able to enjoy wealth and pleasures together with Bernabò and then return home to her husband and children rich and satisfied. But the husband, having arrived at the castle by deception, was thrown into the well without the woman's knowledge and his spirit remained restless wandering around the fortress.
That same night, awakened by the wind of a storm, in which she seemed to hear the lament of abandoned children, the woman rose and wandered desperately around the castle until she reached the top of the tower. A lightning caught her in full, transforming her body decomposed by anguish in the branches and twisting branches of a fig tree, first of the long series of trees planted according to tradition in the same position.
A lightning caught her in full, transforming her body decomposed by anguish in the branches and twisting branches of a fig tree, first of the long series of trees planted according to tradition in the same position. Like many legends it is a raw and terrible story, but it is also a piece of our city. According to legend, the terrible storm destroyed only some chimneys in the country, and that fig tree appeared as if by magic on the tower the next morning seemed a miraculous sign to the peasants who saw it. Those branches became a symbol of a tradition, a symbolic shelter.