The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in

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. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of

Dorsoduro Dorsoduro is one of the six sestieri of Venice, in northern Italy. Dorsoduro includes the highest land areas of the city and also Giudecca island and Isola Sacca Fisola. Its name derives from the Italian for "hard ridge", due to its comparati ...

. It was originally the gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which the

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and the Accademia boat landing station for the '' vaporetto'' water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the

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History

Early history

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756.Accademia di belle arti di Venezia, 1750–2010. Cenni storici
(in Italian). Accademia di belle arti di Venezia. Accessed July 2013. The first director was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepolo became the first president after his return from Würzburg.Elisa Viola (2005)
''L'Accademia di Venezia: i maestri, le collezioni, le sedi''
(in Italian). Venezia: Marsilio. . p. 17. It was one of the first institutions to study art restoration starting in 1777 with Pietro Edwards, and formalised by 1819 as a course. In 1807 the academy was re-founded by

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ic decree. The name was changed from Veneta Academia di Pittura, Scultura e Architettura to Accademia Reale di Belle Arti, "royal academy of fine arts", and the academy was moved to the Palladian complex of the

Scuola della Carità 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 of ...

, where the Gallerie dell'Accademia are still housed. The collections of the Accademia were first opened to the public on 10 August 1817.Gallerie dell'Accademia: Storia delle collezioni
(in Italian). Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Venezia e dei comuni della Gronda lagunare, 7 October 2009. Accessed July 2013.

Later history

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 the

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, the Italian ministry of culture and heritage.

Building

The Napoleonic administration had disbanded many institutions in Venice including some churches, convents and Scuole. The Scuola della Carità, the

Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi A convent is a community of priests, religious brothers, religious sisters or nuns, or the building used by such a community. Convent or convento may also refer to: Places * Convent, Louisiana, U.S. * Convent Gallery, an art museum in Australia * ...

and the church of Santa Maria della Carità thus became the home of the Accademia. The Scuola della Carità was the oldest of the six Scuole Grandi and the building dates back to 1343, though the scuola was formed in 1260. The Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi was started in 1561 by Andrea Palladio, though it was never fully completed. The facade of Santa Maria della Carità was completed in 1441 by Bartolomeo Bon.

Collection

The Gallerie dell’Accademia contains masterpieces of Venetian painting up to the 18th century, generally arranged chronologically though some thematic displays are evident. Artists represented include: Antonello da Messina, Lazzaro Bastiani, Gentile and

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father ...

, Bernardo Bellotto, Pacino di Bonaguida, Canaletto, Vittore Carpaccio, Giulio Carpioni, Rosalba Carriera, Cima da Conegliano, Domenico Fetti,

Pietro Gaspari Pietro Gaspari (1720–1785) was an Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings. Some of them resemble a more barren and finely detailed Piranesi. He worked for many years in Munich, Germany Michele Giambono Michele Taddeo di Giovanni Bono, known as GiambonoAlso known as Michele di Taddeo, Giambono, Zambone, Zambono, Bono, or Michele Giovanni Boni ( 1400 Venice – c. 1462 Venice) was an Italian painter, whose work reflected the International Gothic ...

, Luca Giordano,

Francesco Guardi Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (; 5 October 1712 – 1 January 1793) was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of ...

, Giorgione, Johann Liss, Charles Le Brun, Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Longhi, Lorenzo Lotto, Andrea Mantegna,

Rocco Marconi Rocco Marconi (born before 1490 – 13 May 1529) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and Treviso. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini along with Vittore Belliniano and Girolamo Santacroce Gir ...

Michele Marieschi Michele Marieschi or Michele Giovanni Marieschi, also Michiel (1696 - – 18 January 1744), also known as ''Michiel'', was an Italian painter and engraver. He is mainly known for his landscapes and cityscapes (''vedute''), or views, mostly ...

Giambattista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was ...

Giambattista Pittoni Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the s ...

, Mattia Preti,

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( , ; March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an impo ...

, Tintoretto, Titian,

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

, Giorgio Vasari, Alvise Vivarini, and

Giuseppe Zais Giuseppe Zais (; March 22, 1709 – October 29, 1784) was an Italian painter of landscapes (''vedutisti'') who painted mostly in Venice. He was born in Forno di Canale. He was influenced in his vedute by Marco Ricci and later Francesco Zucca ...

. The collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the '' Vitruvian Man'', which is displayed only rarely as the work, being on paper, is fragile and sensitive to light. In 2019, the Musée du Louvre 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. The work was, therefore, part of the Louvre's exhibition from 24 October 2019 to 24 February 2020.

Highlights

File:Hieronymus Bosch - Hermit Saints Triptych.jpg, Hieronymus Bosch
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The Hermit Saints ''The Hermit Saints'' is a religious oil on panel painting displayed as a triptych, meaning it is one whole painting composed of three separate scenes. This artwork was made by the Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch, dating from 1493. The entiret ...

'', 86 × 120 cm. File:Jacopo bassano adoration of the shepherds.jpg, Jacopo Bassano
''Adoration of the Shepherds'', 9 × 142 cm. File:Accademia - Madonna con Bambino tra le sante Caterina e Maria Maddalena - Giovanni Bellini - Cat 613.jpg, Giovanni Bellini
'' Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Mary Magdalene'', 58 × 107 cm File:Bellini4.jpg, Giovanni Bellini
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Martinengo Pietà The ''Martinengo Pietà'' is an oil painting on panel of by Giovanni Bellini, signed on the rock to the left of the Virgin. It was previously in the collections of the Martinengo family and of Donà delle Rose and is now in the Gallerie dell'Acca ...

'', 65 × 90 cm. File:Accademia - Pala di San Giobbe by Giovanni Bellini.jpg, Giovanni Bellini
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San Giobbe Altarpiece The ''San Giobbe Altarpiece'' (Italian: ''Pala di San Giobbe'') is a c. 1487 oil painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini. Inspired by a plague outbreak in 1485, this sacra conversazione painting is unique in that it was designed ...

'', 371 × 258 cm. File:Giovanni bellini, sacra conversazione giovanelli.jpg, Giovanni Bellini
''Sacred Conversation'', 54 × 76 cm. File:Presentation of the Ring to the Doges of Venice.jpg, Paris Bordone
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The Presentation of the Ring ''The Fisherman Presenting the Ring to Doge Gradenigo'' is a 1534 oil-on-canvas painting by the Venetian Renaissance painter Paris Bordone (1495–1570). It was painted in Venice for the confraternity of San Marco in 1540. The painting treats the ...

'', 370 × 301 cm File:Accedemia - Presentazione di Gesù al tempio del Tintoretto.jpg, Tintoretto, '' Presentation at the Temple'' File:Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto - Perspective View with Portico - WGA03965.jpg, Canaletto
''Perspective View with Portico'', 131 × 93 cm. File:Vittore Carpaccio - Sant'Orsola polyptich - Ritorno Degli ambasciatori.jpg, Vittore Carpaccio
''Cycle of St. Ursula'', 297 × 527 cm File:Giorgione - La Vecchia.jpg, Giorgione
''Old Woman'', 68 × 59 cm. File:Giorgione 019.jpg, Giorgione
'' The Tempest'', 82 × 73 cm File:Accademia - Ritratto di giovane gentiluomo nel suo studio - Lorenzo Lotto cat.912.jpg, Lorenzo Lotto
''Gentleman in His Study'', 98 × 116 cm. File:Accademia - San Giorgio di Andrea Mantegna Cat.588.jpg, Andrea Mantegna
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St. George Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldier ...

'', 66 × 32 cm. File:Accademia - San Girolamo e un devoto - Piero della Francesca.jpg, Piero della Francesca
''St. Jerome and Donor'', 49 × 42 cm File:Giovanni Battista Pittoni - The Penitent Magdalene - WGA17973.jpg,

''Penitent Magdalene'', 48 × 38 cm. File:Accademia - Deposition by Tintoretto.jpg, Tintoretto
''Lamentation'', 227 × 294 cm. File:Tintoretto - La Resurrezione.jpg, Tintoretto
''Resurrection'' File:Accademia - Miracle of the Slave by Tintoretto.jpg, Tintoretto
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Miracle of the Slave ''The Miracle of the Slave'' (also known as ''The Miracle of St. Mark'', 1548) is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Jacopo Tintoretto, and is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. It was originally commissioned for the Scuola G ...

'', 415 × 541 cm. File:Accademia - St Mark's Body Brought to Venice by Jacopo Tintoretto.jpg, Tintoretto
''

Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice ''Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice'', ''The Abduction of the Body of Saint Mark'' or ''Translation of the Body of Saint Mark'' is a painting by Tintoretto. It was produced between 1562 and 1566 as part of a series of works on Saint Mark for th ...

'', 421 × 306 cm. File:Jacopo Tintoretto - Creation of the Animals - WGA22438.jpg, Tintoretto
''Creation of the Animals'', 151 × 258 cm File:Accademia - Pietà by Titian.jpg, Titian
'' Pietà'', 353 × 348 cm. File:Titian - Virgin and Child - WGA22835.jpg, Titian
''Virgin and Child'', 124 × 96 cm File:Titian - St John the Baptist in the Desert - WGA22807.jpg, Titian. '' Saint John the Baptist'', 201 × 134 cm. File:"Présentation de la Vierge au Temple" de Titien (Accademia, Venise) (8103563222).jpg, Titian
'' The Presentation of the Virgin'', 345 × 775 cm. File:The Battle of Lepanto by Paolo Veronese.jpeg, Paolo Veronese
''Battle of Lepanto'', 169 × 137 cm File:The Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese (edited 2).jpg, Paolo Veronese
'' The Feast in the House of Levi'', 555 × 1280 cm. File:Accademia - The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine by Veronese.jpg, Paolo Veronese
''Mystical Marriage of St Catherine'', 337 × 241 cm. File:Jacopo Tintoretto - The Murder of Abel - WGA22654.jpg, Tintoretto, ''The Murder of Abel'', 149×196 cm

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