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academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

") often refers to: * The

Galleria dell'Accademia The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze () is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is best known as the home of Michelangelo's sculpture ''David''. It also has other sculptures by Michelangelo and a large collection of paintings by Florentine a ...

, an art museum in Florence * The

Gallerie dell'Accademia The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery o ...

, an art museum in Venice Accademia may also refer to:

Academies of art

* The

Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collecto ...

, an art school and museum in Bergamo * The

Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio The Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (AAM) is a Swiss school of architecture and is a founding unit of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). History The Accademia was founded in 1996 by Mario Botta, whose influences were Kenneth F ...

, a Swiss school of architecture * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari is a public tertiary academy of art in Bari, in Puglia in southern Italy. It was established on 1 October 1970 and was formally approved by presidential decree on 15 March 1973. Like other state art academi ...

, an art school in Bari * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('academy of fine arts of Bologna') is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia for more than 25 years. His ...

, also known as the Accademia Clementina * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, an art school in Carrara * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze () is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy. It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini and ...

, an art school in Florence * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano "Brera" or

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...

, an art school in Milan * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli The Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Naples Academy of Fine Arts) is a university-level art school in Naples. In the past it has been known as the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti and the Reale Accademia di Belle Arti. Founded by King Charles VII ...

, an art school in Naples * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...

, an art school in Rome * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino "Albertina" or

Accademia Albertina The Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti ("Albertina Academy of Fine Arts") is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy History In the first half of the seventeenth century, there was a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" ...

, an art school in Turin * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia The (English: Academy of Fine Arts of Venice) is a public tertiary academy of art in Venice, Italy. History The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756. The first director was Giovann ...

, an art school in Venice * The Accademia di Belle Arti Gian Bettino Cignaroli di Verona, or

Academy of Fine Arts, Verona The Academy of Fine Arts of Verona is a post-secondary school for studies in the visual arts. Under the current European regulations (Bologna Process), the Academy of Fine Arts of Verona is included in the university program in the field of arti ...

, also known as Accademia Cignaroli * The

Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, "New Academy of Fine Arts", also known as NABA, is a private academy of fine art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has approximately 3000 students, some of whom are from abroad; it participates in t ...

, a private art school in Milan

Learned societies

* The Accademia Angelica-Constantiniana di lettere, arti e scienze or Angelica-Constantiniana Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in Rome in 1949 * The

Accademia degli Arcadi The Accademia degli Arcadi or Accademia dell'Arcadia, "Academy of Arcadia" or "Academy of the Arcadians", is an Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690. The full Italian official name was Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi. History Found ...

, a literary academy founded in Rome in 1690, also known as ** Accademia dell'Arcadia, ** Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi * The

Accademia degli Incamminati The Accademia degli Incamminati (Italian for "Academy of Those who are Making Progress" or "Academy of the Journeying") was one of the first art academies in Italy, founded in 1582 in Bologna. History The academy was founded as the Accademia ...

, founded in about 1580 in Bologna, also known as ** Accademia dei Desiderosi or ** Accademia dei Carracci * The Accademia Cosentina, founded in Cosenza in 1511, also known at various times as ** Accademia Parassiana ** Accademia Telesiana ** Accademia dei Costanti ** Accademia dei Negligenti and ** Accademia dei Pescatori Cratilidi * The

Accademia degli Incogniti The Accademia degli Incogniti (Academy of the Unknowns), also called the Loredanian Academy, was a learned society of freethinking intellectuals, mainly Venetian nobility, noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural and political life of ...

, founded in Venice in 1630 * The

Accademia degli Infiammati The Accademia degli Infiammati ("Academy of the Burning Ones") was a short-lived but influential Philosophy, philosophical and literature, literary academy in Padua, in northern Italy. It was founded in 1540 by Leone Orsini, and was dissolved somewh ...

, a philosophical and literary academy founded in 1540 in Padua * The

Accademia degli Intronati The ''Accademia degli Intronati'' was a prominent literary and scholarly society in Siena.

, founded in Siena between 1525 and 1527 * The

Accademia degli Svogliati The Accademia degli Svogliati ("Academy of the Will-less" or, erroneously, "Disgusted") was a 17th-century association of Italian men of letters in Florence. It began as a conversation on 5 November 1620 at the house of Jacopo Gaddi, where it ...

in 17th-century Florence * The

Accademia dei Georgofili The Accademia dei Georgofili (Academy of Georgofili) is an educational institution in Florence, Italy. It was established in 1753. The academy has been a historic institution for over 250 years, and is best known for promoting, amongst scholars a ...

, a learned society established in Florence in 1753 * The

Accademia dei Lincei The (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed"), anglicised as the Lincean Academy, is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy. Founded in ...

, a scientific academy founded in 1603 in Rome * The

Accademia dei Risvegliati The Accademia dei Risvegliati was a brotherhood founded in Pistoia (Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Floren ...

, founded in Pistoia in the 17th century * The Accademia dei Secreti or

Academia Secretorum Naturae The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae was founded in Naples in 1560 by Giambattista della Porta, a noted polymath. In Italian it was called ''Accademia dei Segreti'', the Academy of the Mysteries of Nature, and the members r ...

, founded by Giovambattista Della Porta in the 16th century * The

Accademia del Cimento The Accademia del Cimento (Academy of Experiment), an early scientific society, was founded in Florence in 1657 by students of Galileo, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and Vincenzo Viviani and ceased to exist about a decade later. The foundation of Acade ...

, a scientific society founded in Florence in 1657 * The

Accademia della Crusca The (; ), generally abbreviated as La Crusca, is a Florence-based society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology. It is one of the most important research institutions of the Italian language, as well as the oldest Academy#Linguisti ...

, a learned society founded in Florence in 1583 * The

Accademia delle Arti del Disegno The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy of the Arts of Drawing") is an academy of artists in Florence, in Italy. It was founded on 13 January 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. It was initially known as ...

, a society of artists in Florence * The Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna or

Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna The Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna (''Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna'') is an academic society in Bologna, Italy, that was founded in 1690 and prospered in the Age of Enlightenment. Today it is closely associated ...

, an academic society in Bologna, founded in 1714 * The

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca () is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first ''principe'' or director; ...

, an association of artists founded in 1577 in Rome * The

Accademia Fiorentina The Accademia Fiorentina was a philosophical and literary learned academy established in Florence in the Republic of Florence during the Italian Renaissance. It was active from 1540 to 1783. History The Accademia Fiorentina was founded ...

, a philosophical and literary academy founded in Florence in 1540 as the ** Accademia degli Umidi * The

Accademia Galileiana The ''Accademia Galileiana'' ('Galilean academy') is a learned society in the city of Padua in Italy. The full name of the society is ('Galilean academy of science, letters and the arts in Padova'). It was founded as the in Padua in 1599, on th ...

, a learned society in Padova, variously known during its history as ** Accademia dei Ricovrati ** Accademia di Arte Agraria ** Accademia di Scienze Lettere e Arti ** Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti * The

Accademia Musicale Chigiana The Accademia Musicale Chigiana (''English'': Chigiana Musical Academy) is a music institute in Siena, Italy. It was founded by Count Guido Chigi-Saracini in 1932 as an international centre for advanced musical studies. It organises Master Class ...

, a musical institution in Siena * The

Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze The Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze (), or more formally L'Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, and also called the Accademia dei XL (), is Italy's national academy of science. Its offices are located within the Villino Rosso, at the co ...

, the Italian national academy of science, founded in Verona in 1782, also known as ** L’Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL or ** Accademia dei XL * The

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia () is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull ''Ratione congruit'', issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gre ...

, a musical institution in Rome * The Accademia Neoplatonica or

Platonic Academy (Florence) The Platonic Academy of Florence (Italian language, Italian: ''Accademia Platonica di Firenze'') was an informal discussion group which formed around Marsilio Ficino in the Florentine Renaissance of the fifteenth century. History In about 1462 ...

, a 15th-century discussion group in Florence centred round Marsilio Ficino * The

Accademia Pontaniana The Accademia Pontaniana was the first academy in the modern sense, as a learned society for scholars and humanists and guided by a formal statute. Patronized by Alfonso V of Aragon, it was founded by the poet Antonio Beccadelli in Naples durin ...

, a scientific academy founded in Naples in the 15th Century * Any

Pontifical academy A pontifical academy is an academic honorary society established by or under the direction of the Holy See. Some were in existence well before they were accepted as "Pontifical." List There are ten Pontifical academies headquartered at the Vatic ...

of the Roman Catholic Church or other

Roman Academies Roman academies were associations of learned individuals, rather than institutes for instruction. They were connected with larger educational structures conceived during and after the Italian Renaissance, at the height of which (from the 1418 e ...

, including ** The Accademia di Raffaele Sanzio ** The Accademia Filarmonica ** The Pontificia Accademia Alfonsiana ** The Pontificia Accademia di Conferenze Storico-Giuridiche ** The Pontificia Accademia "Cultorum Martyrum", or

Pontifical Academy of Martyrs The Pontifical Academy of Martyrs (''Pontificia Academia Cultorum Martyrum'', originally ''Collegium Cultorum Martyrum'') is one of the ten Pontifical Academies established by the Holy See. It serves to advance the cult of saints and martyrs and ...

, founded 1879 ** The Pontificia Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici ** The Pontificia Accademia della Immacolata Concezione ** The Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze, or

Pontifical Academy of Sciences The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (, ) is a Academy of sciences, scientific academy of the Vatican City, established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI. Its aim is to promote the progress of the mathematical, physical, and natural sciences and the study ...

, founded in 1603 ** The Pontificia Accademia delle Scienze Sociali, or

Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (, or PASS) is a pontifical academy established on 1 January 1994 by Pope John Paul II and is headquartered in the Casina Pio IV in Vatican City. It operates much like other learned societies worldwid ...

, founded 1994 ** The Pontificia Accademia di Latinità, or

Pontifical Academy for Latin The Pontifical Academy for Latin () is an organization established in 2012 to promote appreciation for the Latin language and culture. The Academy replaced the Latinitas Foundation, which Pope Paul VI erected in 1976, and is linked to the Dicast ...

, established in 2012 ** The Pontificia Accademia di Religione Cattolica ** The Pontificia Accademia Ecclesiastica ** The Pontificia Accademia Liturgica ** The Pontificia Accademia Mariana Internazionale, or

Pontifical Academy of Mary The Pontifical Academy of Mary (, , PAMI) is an international pontifical organization tasked with promoting mariology. The academy is one of the Pontifical academy, Pontifical academies at the Vatican in Rome. The PAMI also has the task of coord ...

, established in 1946 ** The Pontificia Accademia per la Vita, or

Pontifical Academy for Life The Pontifical Academy for Life or Pontificia Accademia per la Vita is a Pontifical Academy of the Catholic Church dedicated to promoting the Church's consistent life ethic. It also does related research on bioethics and Catholic moral theology. ...

, founded in 1994 ** The Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia or

Pontifical Academy of Archaeology The Pontifical Academy of Archaeology (''Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia'') is an academic honorary society established in Rome by the Catholic Church for the advancement of Christian archaeological study. It is one of the ten such Pont ...

, founded in 1810 ** The Pontificia Accademia Romana di San Tommaso di Aquino, or Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, founded in 1879 ** The Pontificia Accademia Teologica, or

Pontifical Academy of Theology The Pontifical Academy of Theology () is a learned society founded in 1718, and is a Pontifical Academy. It is situated at Via della Conciliazione, Vatican City, Rome. History The Pontifical Academy of Theology was founded by Clement XI in 171 ...

, founded in 1718 ** The Pontificia Accademia Tiberina ** The Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Letteratura dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, or

Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon The Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon is one of the Pontifical Academies under the direction of the Holy See. The complete Italian name of the academy, Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Letteratura ...

, established in 1542 ** The Regia Accademia Medica * The Reale Accademia d'Italia or

Royal Academy of Italy The Royal Academy of Italy () was a short-lived Italian academy of the Italian Fascism, Fascist period. It was created on 7 January 1926 by royal decree,See reference . but was not inaugurated until 28 October 1929. It was effectively dissolved in ...

, an academy of the Fascist period, active 1926–43

Other academies

* The

Accademia Aeronautica The Accademia Aeronautica is the Italian Air Force Academy, the institute for the training of Air Force officers. It's located in Pozzuoli in the province of Naples, in the Italy, Italian region of Campania. Among the oldest aviation academie ...

, the Italian Air Force academy * The

Accademia di Agricoltura di Torino The Accademia di Agricoltura di Torino (academy of agriculture) of Turin was founded as the Società Agraria di Torino on 24 May 1785, by edict of Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia Sardinia is traditionally known to have been initially ruled ...

, founded in Turin in 1785 * The

Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna ("philharmonic academy of Bologna"; sometimes known in English as the Bologna Academy of Music) is a music education institution in Bologna, Italy. The Accademia de' Filarmonici was founded as an associ ...

, a music school in Bologna * The

Accademia Filarmonica di Verona The Accademia Filarmonica di Verona is an academy dedicated to the performance and study of music, founded in 1543 in Verona, Italy. At its founding it consisted of a group of young noblemen with humanistic and literary inclinations, who were also ...

, a music school in Verona * The Accademia Italiana, a private university * The Accademia Italiana Skopje, a fashion school in Skopje * The

Accademia Italiana Thailand Accademia Italiana Thailand is a fashion and design institute founded in 2006 in Bangkok's Watthana District Watthana or Vadhana (, ) is one of the Districts of Bangkok, 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. Neighbouring districts are ...

, a fashion school in Bangkok * The Accademia Navale di Livorno or

Italian Naval Academy The Italian Naval Academy (Italian: ''Accademia Navale'') is a coeducational military university in Livorno, which is responsible for the technical training of military officers of the Italian Navy. History The Hospitals The Hospital of St. Jame ...

, the Italian naval training academy in Livorno * The Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, founded in Rome in 1936 * The

Accademia Reale di Torino Accademia (Italian for "academy") often refers to: * The Galleria dell'Accademia, an art museum in Florence * The Gallerie dell'Accademia, an art museum in Venice Accademia may also refer to: Academies of art * The Accademia Carrara di Belle ...

, a defunct military academy * The

Accademia Vivarium Novum The Academy Vivarium Novum (or ''Accademia'' in Italian) is a college in Rome. Students can spend one or more years immersed in Latin and Ancient Greek. These languages are spoken both in and outside of the classroom. The Academy Vivarium Nov ...

in Rome

Others

* Accademia Apulia, a non-profit organisation founded in April 2008 in London * The Accademia bridge or

Ponte dell'Accademia The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges to span the Grand Canal of Venice, Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, which from 1807 to 2 ...

* Accademia Daniel, an Israeli music ensemble * The Accademia della Farnesina, a centre for sport and political education in fascist Italy, also known as ** Accademia fascista della Farnesina ** Accademia fascista maschile di educazione fisica * The

Accademia Filarmonica Romana The Accademia Filarmonica Romana is a musical institution based in Rome, Italy. It was established in 1821 by a group of upper class amateur musicians led by the Marquis Raffaele Muti Papazzurri (1801–1858) in order to encourage the performance o ...

, an orchestra based in Rome * The

Accademia Italiana di Lingua The Accademia Italiana di Lingua (AIL) is a professional association of schools, institutions and experts in the field of teaching Italian as a foreign language. They organise instruction and testing of students interested in having a diploma for I ...

, a professional association of schools of Italian as a foreign language * The Accademia Normanna or

Norman Academy The Norman Academy (Italian: ''Accademia Normanna'') is an organization established for the promotion of the Arts and Letters, Humanities and Human rights defense throughout the world, incorporated in the State of Florida, United States. It operates ...

, a Florida association for the promotion of the arts, letters and humanities world-wide * Piccola Accademia di Montisi, a musical association in Montisi, Tuscany

Academies of art

Learned societies

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