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academy An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

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Galleria dell'Accademia The Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, or "Gallery of the Academy of Florence", is an art museum in Florence, Italy. It is best known as the home of Michelangelo's sculpture ''David (Michelangelo), David''. It also has other sculptures by Mic ...

, 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

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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 collect ...

, 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 by Mario Botta, whose influences were Kenneth Frampton, ...

, a Swiss school of architecture * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari (English, "Academy of Fine Arts of Bari") is a public tertiary academy of art in Bari, Apulia, Italy. Like other state art academies in Italy, the Accademia became an autonomous degree-awarding institution un ...

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

Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara The Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara is a public tertiary education, tertiary academy of art in Carrara, in Tuscany, Italy. It was founded on 26 September 1769 by Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, duchess of Massa, Tuscany, Massa and princess of ...

, an art school in Carrara * The

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ("academy of fine arts of Florence") 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. ...

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

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of 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 ...

, 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 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 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepolo ...

, 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, founded in 1764. The Accademia Cignaroli is one of the oldest Art Academies in the world and it is listed as one of the five ''Accademie Storiche d'I ...

, 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 List of academies of fine art in Italy, academy of fine art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has approximately 3000 students, some of whom ...

, 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", was an Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690. The full Italian official name was Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi. History F ...

, 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. It was founded as the Accademia dei Desiderosi ("Acad ...

, 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 noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural and political life of mid-17th century Veni ...

, founded in Venice in 1630 * The

Accademia degli Infiammati The Accademia degli Infiammati ("Academy of the Burning Ones") was a short-lived but influential philosophical and literary academy in Padua, in northern Italy. It was founded in 1540 by Leone Orsini, and was dissolved somewhere between 1545 and 1 ...

, 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.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 c ...

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 Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but 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 Rom ...

, a scientific academy founded in 1603 in Rome * The

Accademia dei Risvegliati The Accademia dei Risvegliati was a brotherhood founded in Pistoia (Tuscany Tuscany ( ; it, Toscana ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants. The regional capital ...

, 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 re ...

, 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 Accademia della Crusca (; "Academy of the Bran"), 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 ...

, 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, Italy. Founded as Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy and Company of the Arts of Drawing") on 13 January 1563 by ...

, 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 (the "Academy of Saint Luke") 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 fir ...

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

Accademia Fiorentina The Accademia Fiorentina was a philosophical and literary academy in Florence, Italy during the Renaissance. History The Accademia Fiorentina was founded in Florence on 1 November 1540 as the Accademia degli Umidi, or "academy of the wet ones ...

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

Accademia Galileiana The Accademia Galileiana, or "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 the ...

, 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 Classe ...

, 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 ( en, National Academy of St 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 prom ...

, a musical institution in Rome * The Accademia Neoplatonica or

Platonic Academy (Florence) The Accademia Platonica di Firenze or Platonic Academy of Florence was an informal discussion group which formed around Marsilio Ficino in the Florentine Renaissance of the fifteenth century. History In about 1462 Cosimo de' Medici established ...

, 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 during ...

, a scientific academy founded in Naples in the 15th Century * Any Pontifical academy of the Roman Catholic Church or other

Roman Academies Roman academies refers to associations of learned individuals and not institutes for instruction. Such Roman Academies were always connected to larger educational structures conceived during and following the Italian Renaissance, at the height of w ...

, 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 th ...

, 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 ( it, Pontificia accademia delle scienze, la, Pontificia Academia Scientiarum) is a scientific academy of the Vatican City, established in 1936 by Pope Pius XI. Its aim is to promote the progress of the math ...

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

Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences ( la, Pontificia Academia Scientiarum Socialium, 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 operate ...

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

Pontifical Academy for Latin The Pontifical Academy for Latin ( lat, Pontificia Academia Latinitatis) 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 i ...

, 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 ( la, Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, it, Pontificia accademia mariana internazionale, PAMI) is an international pontifical organization tasked with promoting mariology. The academy is one of the Pon ...

, 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 Roman Catholic Church dedicated to promoting the Church's consistent life ethic. It also does related research on bioethics and Catholic moral the ...

, 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 The Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas (PAST; la, Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinati) is a pontifical academy established on 15 October 1879 by Pope Leo XIII. The academy is one of the pontifical academies housed along with ...

, founded in 1879 ** The Pontificia Accademia Teologica, or

Pontifical Academy of Theology The Pontifical Academy of Theology ( it, Pontificia Accademia di Teologia) 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 The ...

, 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 Academy, Pontifical Academies under the direction of the Holy See. The complete Italian name of the academy, Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle ...

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

Royal Academy of Italy The Royal Academy of Italy ( it, Reale Accademia d'Italia, italic=no) was a short-lived Italian academy of the Fascist period. It was created on 7 January 1926 by royal decree,See reference . but was not inaugurated until 28 October 1929. It was e ...

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

Other academies

* The Accademia Aeronautica, the Italian Air Force academy * The Accademia di Agricoltura di Torino, 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 The Accademia Italiana is an international fine arts university with programs in fashion design, graphic design, interior and product design, jewelry design and photography and new media. It offers three-year bachelor's degree programs, profess ...

, a private university * The Accademia Italiana Skopje, a fashion school in Skopje * The Accademia Italiana Thailand, 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 Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (translation: Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts) is a national drama school in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the ac ...

, founded in Rome in 1936 * The Accademia Reale di Torino, a defunct military academy * The

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

in Rome

Others

Accademia Apulia Youmanity is a UK-based organisation founded in 2008, registered as a charity in May 2018, and based in London. Charity work Youmanity sponsors an annual photography award, mental health and education projects. Youmanity Award for photography ...

, 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 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 2004 was housed in the ...

Accademia Daniel Accademia Daniel is an Israeli music ensemble that specializes in performing music of the baroque era. The ensemble performs regularly both in their native country and in Europe, appearing at such places as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Haydn F ...

, an Israeli music ensemble * The

Accademia della Farnesina The Academia della Farnesina, also known as the Accademia fascista maschile di educazione fisica or Accademia fascista della Farnesina, was a centre for sport and political education in Fascist Italy. The Fascist School of Physical Education ...

, 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 of ...

, an orchestra based in Rome * The

Accademia Italiana di Lingua {{Infobox school , name = Accademia Italiana di Lingua , streetaddress = Casella Postale 815IT-50123 FirenzeItalia , city = Florence , country = Italy , schooltype = Italian as a second language ...

, 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 defence throughout the world, incorporated (but not accredited) in the State of Florida, Uni ...

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

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