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

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. 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 ''

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'' water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili.

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

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.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

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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

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complex of the Scuola della Carità, 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 Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, 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 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 Andrea Palladio ( , ; ; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, is widely considered to be on ...

, though it was never fully completed. The facade of Santa Maria della Carità was completed in 1441 by

Bartolomeo Bon Bartolomeo Bon (also spelled Buon; died after 1464) was an Italian sculptor and architect from Campione d'Italia. His career spans the transition between Venetian Gothic architecture and the rather late start of Venetian Renaissance architecture ...

Collection

The Gallerie dell’Accademia contains masterpieces of Venetian painting up to the 19th century, generally arranged chronologically though some thematic displays are evident. Artists represented include: Giovanni d'Alemagna, Jacopo and

Leandro Bassano Leandro Bassano (10 June 1557 – 15 April 1622), also called Leandro dal Ponte, was an Italian artist from Bassano del Grappa who was awarded a knighthood by the Doge of Venice. He was the younger brother of artist Francesco Bassano the Younger ...

, Lazzaro Bastiani, Jacopo,

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and

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 29 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 Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 172117 November 1780), was an Italians, Italian urban Landscape art, landscape Painting, painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching famous for his Veduta, ''vedute'' of European cities – Dr ...

Paris Bordone Paris Bordone (Paris Paschalinus Bordone; 5 July 1500 – 19 January 1571) was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance who, despite training with Titian, maintained a strand of Mannerist complexity and provincial vigor. Biography Bor ...

Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch (; ; born Jheronimus van Aken ; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch people, Dutch painter from Duchy of Brabant, Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, gene ...

Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Painter of cityscapes or ...

Antonio Canova Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italians, Italian Neoclassical sculpture, Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists,. his sculpture was ins ...

Vittore Carpaccio Vittore Carpaccio ( , , ; – ) was an Italian painter of the Venetian School (art), Venetian school who studied under Gentile Bellini. Carpaccio was largely influenced by the style of the early Italian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina ...

, Giulio Carpioni,

Rosalba Carriera Rosalba Carriera (12 January 1673 – 15 April 1757) was an Italians, Italian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. Carriera would later become known for her pastel portraits, helping popularize the medium ...

Cima da Conegliano Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (), was an Italian Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice. He can be considered part of the Venetian school (art), Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da ...

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

Domenico Fetti Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) ( – 16 April 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice. Biography Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed ini ...

, Jacobello del Fiore, Fra Galgario, Pietro Gaspari,

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Early l ...

, Giovanni Antonio and

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

Giorgione Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco (; 1470s – 17 September 1510), known as Giorgione, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, ...

Francesco Hayez Francesco Hayez (; 10 February 1791 – 12 February 1882) was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories, and ...

, Giulia Lama,

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, Johann Liss,

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested o ...

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and

Alessandro Longhi Alessandro Longhi (12 June 1733 – 8 November 1813) was a Venice, Venetian portrait Painting, painter and printmaker in etching (mostly reproductions of paintings). He is known best for his oil portraits of Venetian nobles of state. Like Seba ...

, Lorenzo Veneziano, Johann Carl Loth,

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian Renaissance painter, draughtsman, and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities. He painted mainly altarpie ...

, Francesco Maffei, Giovanni Mansueti,

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, ; ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance painter, a student of Ancient Rome, Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with Perspective (graphical), pe ...

, Rocco Marconi, Michele Marieschi,

Hans Memling Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; – 11 August 1494) was a German-Flemish people, Flemish painter who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. Born in the Middle Rhine region, he probably spent his childhood in Mainz. During ...

, Michele di Matteo da Bologna, Palma Vecchio and Giovane,

Paolo Veneziano Paolo Veneziano, also Veneziano Paolo or Paolo da Venezia (active by 1333, died after 1358) was a 14th-century painter from Venice, the "founder of the Venetian school (art), Venetian School" of painting, probably active between about 1321 and 13 ...

, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta,

Piero della Francesca Piero della Francesca ( , ; ; ; – 12 October 1492) was an Italian Renaissance painter, Italian painter, mathematician and List of geometers, geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is charact ...

, Bonifacio de' Pitati, Giambattista Pittoni,

Mattia Preti Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 – 3 January 1699) was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John. Life Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was called ''Il Ca ...

, Sebastiano and Marco Ricci, Benedetto Rusconi, Carlo Saraceni,

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and

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Life history Domenico was born in V ...

, Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto,

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, Cosmè Tura,

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

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...

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and Alvise Vivarini, Giuseppe Zais, Francesco Zuccarelli. The collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the ''

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'', which is displayed only rarely as the work, being on paper, is fragile and sensitive to light. In 2019, the

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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
'' The Hermit Saints'', 86 × 120 cm File:(Venice) Adoration of the shepherds by Jacopo Dal Ponte Bassano - gallerie Accademia Venice.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
'' Martinengo Pietà'', 65 × 90 cm File:Accademia - Pala di San Giobbe by Giovanni Bellini.jpg, Giovanni Bellini
'' San Giobbe Altarpiece'', 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
'' The Presentation of the Ring'', 370 × 301 cm File:Tintoretto - Presentation at the Temple.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:Col tempo by Giorgione.jpg, Giorgione
''Old Woman'', 68 × 59 cm File:Giorgione 019.jpg, Giorgione
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'', 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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'', 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, Giambattista Pittoni
''Penitent Magdalene'', 48 × 38 cm File:Accademia - Deposition by Tintoretto.jpg, Tintoretto
''Lamentation'', 227 × 294 cm File:Tintoretto - La Resurrezione.jpg, Tintoretto
''Resurrection'' File:Tintoretto - Miracle of the Slave.jpg, Tintoretto
'' Miracle of the Slave'', 415 × 541 cm File:Jacopo Tintoretto - St Mark's Body Brought to Venice.jpg, Tintoretto
'' Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice'', 421 × 306 cm File:Jacopo_Tintoretto_—_Creation_of_the_Animals.jpg, Tintoretto
''Creation of the Animals'', 151 × 258 cm File:Accademia - Pietà by Titian.jpg, Titian
''

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'', 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. ''

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'', 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:(Venice) Allegoria della battaglia di Lepanto - Gallerie Accademia.jpg, 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

References

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