The Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara is a public

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of art in

Carrara Carrara ( , ; , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some west-northwest of Florence. Its mot ...

, in

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, Italy. It was founded on 26 September 1769 by

Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina Maria Teresa CyboThis is also sometimes spelt ''Cibo''.-Malaspina (29 June 1725 29 December 1790) was the sovereign Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara from 1731 until her death in 1790. She was the eldest child of Alderano I, Duke of Mas ...

, duchess of Massa and princess of Carrara; but its origins go back to 1757, when, on the advice of the sculptor , she founded the Accademia di San Ceccardo in which sculpture, architecture and painting were to be taught. To house it, she commissioned

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to design and build a new building (which is now the Biblioteca Civica); in 1807, by order of

Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy ( French: ''Marie Anne Elisa Bonaparte''; 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was Princess of Lucca ...

, the accademia was moved the Palazzo del Principe. The school of architecture was at first under Filippo del Medico; was head of the school of sculpture. Like other state art academies in Italy, it became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999, and falls under the

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, the Italian ministry of education and research.

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