Academy of Fine Arts of Venice . In Italian: Accademia di Belle Arti, is the Academy or School of Fine Arts in Venice , Italy ; popularly known as The Academy. The works of his students were the origin of the gallery of that institution called Accademia Gallery, in Italian: Gallerie dell’Accademia, which preserves one of the largest collections of Italian art and is one of the most important tourist spots in the city from Venice. It is located on the southern bank of the Grand Canal in Venice, where the Academy gives its name to one of the only three bridges that cross the canal, the Academy Bridge, in Italian: Ponte dell’Accademia.
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History
The origins of the Academy date back to 1750 , when the Venetian Republic decided to endow the city with an Academy of painters and sculptors . The commission was given to the painter Giovanni Battista Piazzetta with installations in the Fondaco de la Harina, currently the Captaincy of the Port, shortly before the San Marcos Dock. From that moment a first group of works made by the students of the Academy began to be collected.
In 1807 , during the Napoleonic occupation, it was decided to move the Art school and the works to a more dignified and comfortable place. The premises of the School of Charity (Scuola della Carità), the Church of Santa Maria della Carità in the homonymous field and the ex-convent of the Lateran Canons (Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi) were chosen.
The Charity School was the oldest of the six and the building dates from 1343, although the school was founded in 1260. The church dates from 1441 and is the work of Bartolomeo Bon. The Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi was started by Andrea Palladio in 1560 , although it was never finished, which is why today it is quite touched up. The architect in charge of adapting these buildings for educational and museum use was Giovanni Antonio Selva ( 1751 – 1819 ).
Numerous works from suppressed churches and convents converged at this place, in addition to those already owned. So little by little between 1816 and 1856 the Accademia Gallery was enriched with the Molin, Contarini, Renier and Manfrin collections, which endowed it with undisputed masterpieces of Italian art. Other works joined the museum from Austria after the Treaty of San Germano in 1919 , as well as those acquired by the Italian State, thanks mainly to the interest of the directors Giulio Cantalamessa and Gino Fogolari.
Museum funds
Giorgione’s Tempest (painting) is one of the best-known paintings on display in the Accademia Gallery.
The Accademia Gallery preserves masterpieces of Venetian painting until the 18th century , arranged chronologically although its exhibition is sometimes treated for similar themes.
Works by the following authors, among others, are exhibited:
- Gentile Bellini.
- Giovanni Bellini.
- Sebastiano del Piombo.
- Canaletto Canaletto.
- Vittore Carpaccio.
- Rosalba Carriera.
- Francesco Guardi.
- Pietro Longhi .
- Lorenzo Lotto.
- Andrea Mantegna.
- Giambattista Piazzetta .
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo .
- Paolo Veronese .
Curiosities
- Gallerie dell’Accademia literally means Galleries of the Academy and the reason for this plural name is that the origin of the Gallery included two sections, one reserved for painting and the other for sculpture and plasters, but despite the rearrangement in one only collection, the plural denomination has remained.
