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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, 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, an art school and museum in Bergamo * The Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, a Swiss school of architecture * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari, 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, 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, an art school in Naples * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, an art school in Rome * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino "Albertina" or Accademia Albertina, an art school in Turin * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, an art school in Venice * The Accademia di Belle Arti Gian Bettino Cignaroli di Verona, or Academy of Fine Arts, Verona, also known as Accademia Cignaroli * The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, 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, 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, founded in Siena between 1525 and 1527 * The Accademia degli Svogliati 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, 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, a philosophical and literary academy founded in Florence in 1540 as the ** Accademia degli Umidi * The Accademia Galileiana, 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, a musical institution in Siena * The Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, 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, 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, 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, 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, founded 1994 ** The Pontificia Accademia di Latinità, or Pontifical Academy for Latin, 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, established in 1946 ** The Pontificia Accademia per la Vita, or Pontifical Academy for Life, founded in 1994 ** The Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia or Pontifical Academy of Archaeology, 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, 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, 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, founded in Turin in 1785 * The Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, a music school in Bologna * The Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, a music school in Verona * The Accademia Italiana, 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 training academy in Livorno * The Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, founded in Rome in 1936 * The Accademia Reale di Torino, a defunct military academy * The Accademia Vivarium Novum 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, an orchestra based in Rome * The Accademia Italiana di Lingua, a professional association of schools of Italian as a foreign language * The Accademia Normanna or Norman Academy, 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

Other academies

Others

See also