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

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

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of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of the

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, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which the Ponte dell'Accademia 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 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 ...

;

Gianbattista 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 ...

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

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

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 one of ...

, 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 18th century, generally arranged chronologically though some thematic displays are evident. Artists represented include:

Antonello da Messina Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina ( 1430February 1479), was an Italian painter from Messina, active during the Early Italian Renaissance. ...

Lazzaro Bastiani Lazzaro Bastiani (1429 – 5 April 1512) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. He was born in Padua. He is first recorded as a painter in Venice by 1460 in a payment for an altarpiece of San Samuele, for the Procura ...

Gentile Gentile () is a word that usually means "someone who is not a Jew". Other groups that claim Israelite heritage, notably Mormons, sometimes use the term ''gentile'' to describe outsiders. More rarely, the term is generally used as a synonym fo ...

and Giovanni Bellini,

Bernardo Bellotto Bernardo Bellotto (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 172117 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching famous for his ''vedute'' of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was th ...

Pacino di Bonaguida Alfredo James Pacino (; ; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he has received numerous accolades: including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy A ...

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 city views or ...

Vittore Carpaccio Vittore Carpaccio ( UK: /kɑːrˈpætʃ(i)oʊ/, US: /-ˈpɑːtʃ-/, Italian: itˈtoːre karˈpattʃo c. 1460/66 – 1525/26) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who studied under Gentile Bellini. Carpaccio was largely influence ...

Giulio Carpioni Giulio Carpioni (1613 – 29 January 1678) was an Italian painter and etcher of the early Baroque era. Life Born probably in Venice, Carpioni studied under Alessandro Varotari (''il Padovanino'') and was also influenced by the work of Simone C ...

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

Cima da Conegliano Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 – c. 1517), was an Italian Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice. He can be considered part of the Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da ...

Domenico Fetti Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) (c. 1589 – 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who had been active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice. Biography Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed ...

, Pietro Gaspari, Michele Giambono,

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 and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Earl ...

, Francesco Guardi,

Giorgione Giorgione (, , ; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic quali ...

Johann Liss Johann Liss or Jan Lys ( or 1597 – 1629 or 1630) was a leading German Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Venice. Biography Liss was born in Oldenburg (Holstein) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. After an initial education ...

Charles Le Brun Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of ...

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially res ...

Pietro Longhi Pietro Longhi (1702 or November 5, 1701 – May 8, 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life. Biography Pietro Longhi was born in Venice in the parish of Saint Maria, first child of the silversmith Alessandro Falca and ...

Lorenzo Lotto Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian 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 altarpieces, religiou ...

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in orde ...

, Rocco Marconi, Michele Marieschi, Giambattista Piazzetta, 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 ...

, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo,

Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; born Jacopo Robusti; late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594) was an Italian painter identified with the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed wit ...

Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italian (Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, nea ...

, Paolo Veronese,

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

Alvise Vivarini Alvise or Luigi Vivarini (1442/1453–1503/1505) was an Italian painter, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters. His father was Antonio Vivarini and his uncle, with whom he may ha ...

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

Vitruvian Man The ''Vitruvian Man'' ( it, L'uomo vitruviano; ) is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to . Inspired by the writings by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the drawing depicts a nude man in two s ...

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

Musée du Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

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: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
'' 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: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
'' St. George'', 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:Accademia - Miracle of the Slave by Tintoretto.jpg, Tintoretto
'' Miracle of the Slave'', 415 × 541 cm. File:Accademia - St Mark's Body Brought to Venice by Jacopo Tintoretto.jpg, Tintoretto
'' Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice'', 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 The Pietà (; meaning " pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus after his body was removed from the cross. It is most often found in sculpture. The Pietà is a specific form ...

'', 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: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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