Gallerie dell'Accademia

This article is about the art gallery in Venice. For the Accademia art gallery in Florence, see Galleria dell'Accademia. For other uses, see 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 of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, 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 vaporetto water bus are named. The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili.

Gallerie dell'Accademia

Façade of the gallery on Campo della Carità
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Established	1750
Location	Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050, Venice, Italy
Coordinates	45°25′53″N 12°19′41″E
Type	Art Museum
Director	Giulio Manieri Elia
Curator	Roberta Battaglia Michele Nicolaci Valeria Poletto Michele Tavola
Public transit access	vaporetto
Website	gallerieaccademia.it

History

Early history

Main article: Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756.^[1] The first director was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepolo became the first president after his return from Würzburg.^[2]

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 Napoleonic 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, where the Gallerie dell'Accademia are still housed. The collections of the Accademia were first opened to the public on 10 August 1817.^[1][3]

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

Collection

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the most famous work of the Gallery, is not displayed for visitors, except on very rare occasions.

See also: Category:Collection of the Gallerie dell'Accademia

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, Lazzaro Bastiani, Jacopo, Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Bernardo Bellotto, Paris Bordone, Hieronymus Bosch, Canaletto, Antonio Canova, Vittore Carpaccio, Giulio Carpioni, Rosalba Carriera, Cima da Conegliano, Pietro da Cortona, Domenico Fetti, Jacobello del Fiore, Fra Galgario, Pietro Gaspari, Luca Giordano, Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi, Giorgione, Francesco Hayez, Giulia Lama, Charles Le Brun, Johann Liss, Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro and Alessandro Longhi, Lorenzo Veneziano, Johann Carl Loth, Lorenzo Lotto, Francesco Maffei, Giovanni Mansueti, Andrea Mantegna, Rocco Marconi, Michele Marieschi, Hans Memling, Michele di Matteo da Bologna, Palma Vecchio and Giovane, Paolo Veneziano, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Piero della Francesca, Bonifacio de' Pitati, Giambattista Pittoni, Mattia Preti, Sebastiano and Marco Ricci, Benedetto Rusconi, Carlo Saraceni, Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jacopo and Domenico Tintoretto, Titian, Cosmè Tura, Paolo Veronese, Giorgio Vasari, Antonio, Bartolomeo and Alvise Vivarini, Giuseppe Zais, Francesco Zuccarelli.

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 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.^[4] The work was, therefore, part of the Louvre's exhibition from 24 October 2019 to 24 February 2020.^[5]

Highlights

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  Hieronymus Bosch
  The Hermit Saints, 86 × 120 cm
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  Jacopo Bassano
  Adoration of the Shepherds, 9 × 142 cm
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  Giovanni Bellini
  Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Mary Magdalene, 58 × 107 cm
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  Giovanni Bellini
  Martinengo Pietà, 65 × 90 cm
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  Giovanni Bellini
  San Giobbe Altarpiece, 371 × 258 cm
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  Giovanni Bellini
  Sacred Conversation, 54 × 76 cm
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  Paris Bordone
  The Presentation of the Ring, 370 × 301 cm
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  Tintoretto, Presentation at the Temple
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  Canaletto
  Perspective View with Portico, 131 × 93 cm
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  Vittore Carpaccio
  Cycle of St. Ursula, 297 × 527 cm
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  Giorgione
  Old Woman, 68 × 59 cm
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  Giorgione
  The Tempest, 82 × 73 cm
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  Lorenzo Lotto
  Gentleman in His Study, 98 × 116 cm
• 
  Andrea Mantegna
  St. George, 66 × 32 cm
• 
  Piero della Francesca
  St. Jerome and Donor, 49 × 42 cm
• 
  Giambattista Pittoni
  Penitent Magdalene, 48 × 38 cm
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  Tintoretto
  Lamentation, 227 × 294 cm
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  Tintoretto
  Resurrection
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  Tintoretto
  Miracle of the Slave, 415 × 541 cm
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  Tintoretto
  Saint Mark's Body Brought to Venice, 421 × 306 cm
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  Tintoretto
  Creation of the Animals, 151 × 258 cm
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  Titian
  Pietà, 353 × 348 cm
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  Titian
  Virgin and Child, 124 × 96 cm
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  Titian. Saint John the Baptist, 201 × 134 cm
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  Titian
  The Presentation of the Virgin, 345 × 775 cm
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  Paolo Veronese
  Battle of Lepanto, 169 × 137 cm
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  Paolo Veronese
  The Feast in the House of Levi, 555 × 1280 cm
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  Paolo Veronese
  Mystical Marriage of St Catherine, 337 × 241 cm
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  Tintoretto, The Murder of Abel, 149×196 cm

See also

• List of buildings and structures in Venice

References

1. Accademia di belle arti di Venezia, 1750–2010. Cenni storici Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). Accademia di belle arti di Venezia. Accessed July 2013.
2. Elisa Viola (2005). L'Accademia di Venezia: i maestri, le collezioni, le sedi (in Italian). Venezia: Marsilio. ISBN 9788831786553. p. 17.
3. Gallerie dell'Accademia: Storia delle collezioni Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine (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.
4. "Leonardo's 'Vitruvian Man' Is Headed to the Louvre Despite Italian Scholars' Protests". Smithsonian. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
5. "Louvre exhibit has most da Vinci paintings ever assembled". The Atlantic. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

External links

• Media related to Gallerie dell'Accademia (Venice) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by Doge's Palace

Venice landmarks Gallerie dell'Accademia

Succeeded by Grand Canal