Gallerie dell'Accademia

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{{Short description|Art museum in Venice, Italy}}
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The '''Gallerie dell'Accademia''' is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in [[Venice]], [[northern Italy]]. A few weeks every six years, it houses the [[Leonardo da Vinci]] [[drawing]] ''[[Vitruvian Man|The Vitruvian Man]]''. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the [[Grand Canal (Venice)|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, Venice|Ospedale degli Incurabili]].

==History==
===Early history===
{{main|Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia}}
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756.<ref name=acc>[http://www.accademiavenezia.it/accademia.php?id=1 Accademia di belle arti di Venezia, 1750–2010. Cenni storici] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113170828/http://www.accademiavenezia.it/accademia.php?id=1 |date=2013-11-13 }} (in Italian). Accademia di belle arti di Venezia. Accessed July 2013.</ref> The first director was [[Giovanni Battista Piazzetta]]; [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo|Gianbattista Tiepolo]] became the first president after his return from [[Würzburg]].<ref name=viola>Elisa Viola (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?ei=cofZUe3TGIeK7AbZ94GYAw&id=4UtNAAAAYAAJ ''L'Accademia di Venezia: i maestri, le collezioni, le sedi''] (in Italian). Venezia: Marsilio. {{ISBN|9788831786553}}. p. 17.</ref>

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 [[Napoleon]]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 architecture|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.<ref name=acc/><ref name=polo>[http://www.polomuseale.venezia.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/145/storia-delle-collezioni Gallerie dell'Accademia: Storia delle collezioni] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019004934/http://www.polomuseale.venezia.beniculturali.it/index.php?it%2F145%2Fstoria-delle-collezioni |date=2014-10-19 }} (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. Retrieved July 2013.</ref>

===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 [[Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism (Italy)|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 Grandi of Venice|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 of Venice|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==
[[Image:Da Vinci Vitruve Luc Viatour.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s ''[[Vitruvian Man]]'', the most famous work of the Gallery, is not displayed for visitors, except on very rare occasions.]]

{{category see also|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 Bassano|Jacopo]] and [[Leandro Bassano]], [[Lazzaro Bastiani]], [[Jacopo Bellini|Jacopo]], [[Gentile Bellini|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 Guardi|Giovanni Antonio]] and [[Francesco Guardi]], [[Giorgione]], [[Francesco Hayez]], [[Giulia Lama]], [[Charles Le Brun]], [[Johann Liss]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Pietro Longhi|Pietro]] and [[Alessandro Longhi]], [[Lorenzo Veneziano]], [[Johann Carl Loth]], [[Lorenzo Lotto]], [[Francesco Maffei]], [[Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti|Giovanni Mansueti]], [[Andrea Mantegna]], [[Rocco Marconi]], [[Michele Marieschi]], [[Hans Memling]], [[Michele di Matteo da Bologna]], [[Palma Vecchio]] and [[Palma il Giovane|Giovane]], [[Paolo Veneziano]], [[Giovanni Battista Piazzetta]], [[Piero della Francesca]], [[Bonifazio Veronese|Bonifacio de' Pitati]], [[Giambattista Pittoni]], [[Mattia Preti]], [[Sebastiano Ricci|Sebastiano]] and [[Marco Ricci]], [[Benedetto Rusconi]], [[Carlo Saraceni]], [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo|Giovanni Battista]] and [[Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo]], [[Tintoretto|Jacopo]] and [[Domenico Tintoretto]], [[Titian]], [[Cosmè Tura]], [[Paolo Veronese]], [[Giorgio Vasari]], [[Antonio Vivarini|Antonio]], [[Bartolomeo Vivarini|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/12/leonardo-da-vinci-louvre-museum-his-life-painter/602800/ |title=Leonardo's 'Vitruvian Man' Is Headed to the Louvre Despite Italian Scholars' Protests |date=21 October 2019 |publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=2 December 2019 }}</ref> The work was, therefore, part of the Louvre's exhibition from 24 October 2019 to 24 February 2020.<ref>{{cite web |author = Donadio, Rachel | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/12/leonardo-da-vinci-louvre-museum-his-life-painter/602800/ |title = Leonardo da Vinci’s Unexamined Life as a Painter – A New Show Marks the 500th Anniversary of the Artist’s Death, and Reveals Some of His Innermost Thoughts |date=1 December 2019 |work = [[The Atlantic]]|access-date=30 June 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>

=== Highlights ===
<gallery class="center" widths="210" heights="190" perrow="3">
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 (Tintoretto, Gallerie dell'Accademia)|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 ''[[The Tempest (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 (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:Tintoretto — Deposition (Accademia).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 (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 ''[[Pietà (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 (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 at the Temple (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
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==See also==
* [[List of art museums]]
* [[List of buildings and structures in Venice]]
* [[List of museums in Italy]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{url|gallerieaccademia.it}}, the museum's official website

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