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| Established | 1750 (276 years ago) (1750) |
| Location | Campo della Carità,Dorsoduro 1050,Venice, Italy |
| Coordinates | 45°25′53″N12°19′41″E / 45.43139°N 12.32806°E /45.43139; 12.32806 |
| Type | Art museum |
| Director | Giulio Manieri Elia |
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| Public transit access | vaporetto |
| Website | gallerieaccademia |
TheGallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art inVenice,northern Italy. A few weeks every six years, it houses theLeonardo da VincidrawingThe Vitruvian Man. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of theGrand Canal, within thesestiere ofDorsoduro.
It was originally the gallery of theAccademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which thePonte dell'Accademia and the Accademia boat landing station for thevaporetto water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to theOspedale degli Incurabili.
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756.[1] The first director wasGiovanni Battista Piazzetta;Gianbattista Tiepolo became the first president after his return fromWürzburg.[2]
It was one of the first institutions to studyart restoration starting in 1777 with Pietro Edwards, and formalised by 1819 as a course.
In 1807 the academy was re-founded byNapoleonic decree. The name was changed fromVeneta Academia di Pittura, Scultura e Architettura toAccademia Reale di Belle Arti, "royal academy of fine arts", and the academy was moved to thePalladian complex of theScuola della Carità, where the Gallerie dell'Accademia are still housed. The collections of the Accademia were first opened to the public on 10 August 1817.[1][3]
The Gallerie dell'Accademia became independent from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in 1879. Like other state museums in Italy, it falls under theMinistero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, the Italian Ministry of Culture and Heritage.
The Napoleonic administration had disbanded many institutions in Venice including some churches, convents andScuole. The Scuola della Carità, theConvento dei Canonici Lateranensi and the church of Santa Maria della Carità thus became the home of the Accademia. The Scuola della Carità was the oldest of the sixScuole Grandi and the building dates back to 1343, though the scuola was formed in 1260. The Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi was started in 1561 byAndrea Palladio, though it was never fully completed. The facade of Santa Maria della Carità was completed in 1441 byBartolomeo Bon.
The Gallerie dell’Accademia contains masterpieces of Venetian painting up to the 19th century, generally arranged chronologically though some thematic displays are evident.
Artists represented include:Giovanni d'Alemagna,Jacopo andLeandro Bassano,Lazzaro Bastiani,Jacopo,Gentile andGiovanni Bellini,Bernardo Bellotto,Paris Bordone,Hieronymus Bosch,Canaletto,Antonio Canova,Vittore Carpaccio,Giulio Carpioni,Rosalba Carriera,Cima da Conegliano,Pietro da Cortona,Domenico Fetti,Jacobello del Fiore,Fra Galgario,Pietro Gaspari,Luca Giordano,Giovanni Antonio andFrancesco Guardi,Giorgione,Francesco Hayez,Giulia Lama,Charles Le Brun,Johann Liss,Leonardo da Vinci,Pietro andAlessandro Longhi,Lorenzo Veneziano,Johann Carl Loth,Lorenzo Lotto,Francesco Maffei,Giovanni Mansueti,Andrea Mantegna,Rocco Marconi,Michele Marieschi,Hans Memling,Michele di Matteo da Bologna,Palma Vecchio andGiovane,Paolo Veneziano,Giovanni Battista Piazzetta,Piero della Francesca,Bonifacio de' Pitati,Giambattista Pittoni,Mattia Preti,Sebastiano andMarco Ricci,Benedetto Rusconi,Carlo Saraceni,Giovanni Battista andGiovanni Domenico Tiepolo,Jacopo andDomenico Tintoretto,Titian,Cosmè Tura,Paolo Veronese,Giorgio Vasari,Antonio,Bartolomeo andAlvise Vivarini,Giuseppe Zais,Francesco Zuccarelli.
The collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of theVitruvian Man, which is displayed only rarely as the work, being on paper, is fragile and sensitive to light. In 2019, theLouvre in Paris requested the loan of the drawing for its exhibition of works by Leonardo. The request was refused by a cultural heritage group. A court tribunal in Venice, however, decided that the work would suffer no ill effects if shipped with great care and displayed under controlled conditions.[4] The work was, therefore, part of the Louvre's exhibition from 24 October 2019 to 24 February 2020.[5]
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