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The Accademia is best known now as a museum gallery of pre-1800s art in Venice

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. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal

Grand Canal of Venice

The Grand Canal is the most important canal in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, but many tourists visit it by gondola....
, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia

Ponte dell'Accademia

The Ponte dell'Accademia is one of only four bridges in Venice to span the Grand Canal of Venice. It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia galleries....
, and to the boat landing station for the vaporetto
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'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded in 1750 by the Venetian Senate as Venice

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The Accademia is best known now as a museum gallery of pre-1800s art in Venice

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L'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded in 1750 by the Venetian Senate as Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
’s school of painting, sculpture, and architecture. In Venice, it is uniformly known as the Accademia and mainly as a museum. Installed as its first president was Giambattista Piazzetta, with other advisors Giambattista Pittoni

Giambattista Pittoni

Giambattista Pittoni was an Italy painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, active mainly in his native Venice.Pittoni is best known for his "grand-manner" canvases depicting religious, historical, and mythological subjects ....
and Gianmaria Morlaiter. The aim was to replicate official institutions which had existed for many years in other major artistic centers including Rome (Accademia di San Luca

Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca, was an association of artists in Rome, founded in 1593 with the directorship of Federico Zuccari, with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists" above that of craftsman....
), Milan, and Bologna (Accademia Clementina). It was one of the first institutions to study art restoration starting in 1777 with Pietro Edwards, and formalized by 1819 as a course. Among teachers at the Academy in past and modern times were Tiepolo, Hayez, Nono, Ettore Tito, Arturo Martini

Arturo Martini

Arturo Martini was a leading Italy Sculpture between World War I and World War II. He moved between a very vigorous classicism and, later, modernism....
, Alberto Viani, Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa

Carlo Scarpa , was an Italy designer with a profound understanding of materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture.Scarpa was born in Venice in 1906....
, Afro, Santomaso, and Emilio Vedova

Emilio Vedova

Emilio Vedova was an Italy modern art Painting, considered one of the most important to emerge in his country's artistic scene after World War II....
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The Accademia was renamed the Accademia Reale di Belle Arti and moved to its present premises in 1807 by order of the Napoleonic occupying forces. This administration had disbanded many institutions in Venice including some churches, convents and Scuole

Scuole Grandi of Venice

The Scuole Grandi of Venice were confraternity or sodality institutions in Venice, Italy. They were founded as early as the 13th century as charitable and religious organizations for the laity....
. 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 Grande and the building dates back to 1343, though the scuola was formed in 1260. The Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi was started in 1561 by Palladio, though it was never fully completed. The facade of Santa Maria della Carità was completed in 1441 by Bartolomeo Bon

Bartolomeo Bon

Bartolomeo Bon was an Italy sculptor and architect from Campione d'Italia.Together with his father Giovanni Bon, he worked in Venice: they finished the decoration of the famous Gothic architecture Ca' d'Oro and the marble door of the Basilica di Santa Maria dei Frari....
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See also Collections of the Gallerie dell'Accademia

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: Gentile

Gentile Bellini

Gentile Bellini was an Italy painter. Born in Venice, the son of the painter Jacopo Bellini, he was christened Gentile after Jacopo's master, Gentile da Fabriano....
and Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini

Giovanni Bellini was an Italy Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venice painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna....
, Bernardo Bellotto

Bernardo Bellotto

Bernardo Bellotto was an Italy urban Landscape art Painting or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities ....
, Pacino di Bonaguida, Canaletto

Canaletto

Giovanni Antonio Canal , better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching....
, Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio

Vittore Carpaccio was an Italy painter of the Venetian school, who studied under Gentile Bellini. He is best known for a cycle of nine paintings, The Legend of Saint Ursula....
, Giulio Carpioni

Giulio Carpioni

Giulio Carpioni was an Italy painter and etcher of the early Baroque era.Born probably in Venice, Carpioni studied under Alessandro Varotari and was also influenced by the work of Simone Cantarini, Carlo Saraceni and Jean Leclerc ....
, Rosalba Carriera

Rosalba Carriera

Rosalba Carriera was a Venice Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. She later became known for her pastel work, a medium appealing to Rococo styles for its soft edges and flattering surfaces....
, Cima da Conegliano

Cima da Conegliano

Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano was an Italy Renaissance painter....
, Fetti

Domenico Fetti

Domenico Fetti was an Italy Baroque painter active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice....
, Pietro Gaspari

Pietro Gaspari

Pietro Gaspari was an Italy artist, known for veduta and cappricio in etchings and paintings. Some of them resemble a more barren and finely detailed Piranesi. He was active mainly in Venice....
, Michele Giambono

Michele Giambono

Michele Giambono was an Italy painter and mosaicist of the Early Renaissance in Venice. Giambono's style, in general, remains archaic and iconic, and seems generally unaffected by Florentine experimentation with perspective and dimensionality of figures....
, Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano was an Italy late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching....
, Francesco Guardi

Francesco Guardi

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Italy painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....
, Giorgione

Giorgione

Giorgione is the familiar name of Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco, an Italy painter, a seminal artist of the High Renaissance in Venice....
, Johann Liss

Johann Liss

Johann Liss was a leading Germany Baroque painting painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Venice....
, Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun

Charles Le Brun was a French Painting and Aesthetics, one of the dominant artists in 17th century France....
, Pietro Longhi

Pietro Longhi

Pietro Longhi was a Venice Painting of contemporary scenes of life....
, Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto

Lorenzo Lotto was a Northern Italy Painting draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school. He painted mainly altarpieces, religious subjects and portraits....
, Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna

Andrea Mantegna was a Venetian Renaissance artist, a student of Ancient Rome 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 order to create a sense of greater monumentality....
, Rocco Marconi

Rocco Marconi

Rocco Marconi was an Italy painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and Treviso. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Bellini along with Vittore Belliniano and Girolamo Santacroce....
, Michele Marieschi

Michele Marieschi

Michele Marieschi was an Italy painter of landscapes or vistas who painted veduta mostly in Venice.Less well-known than his famous contemporary vedutisti, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi, he was the son of an engraver ....
, Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio was a Sicily Painting active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of North Italy, especially Venice....
, Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Preti

Mattia Preti

Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta....
, Giambattista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo was a Venice Painting and printmaker. He was prolific and worked not only in the Veneto, but also in Germany and Spain, and is considered among the last "Grand manner" fresco painters from the Venice....
, Tintoretto

Tintoretto

Tintoretto was one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school and probably the last great painter of the Italian Renaissance. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso, and his dramatic use of perspectival space and special lighting effects make him a precursor of baroque art....
, Titian

Titian

File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
, Veronese

Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi....
(Paolo Caliari), Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing....
, Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
(Drawing of Vitruvian Man

Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing with accompanying notes created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487 as recorded in one of his journals....
), Alvise Vivarini

Alvise Vivarini

Alvise or Luigi Vivarini, , was an Italy Painting, the leading Venetian artist before Giovanni Bellini. Like Bellini, he was part of a dynasty of painters....
, and Giuseppe Zais

Giuseppe Zais

Giuseppe Zais was an Italy painter of landscape painting who painted mostly in Venice.He was born in Forno di Canale.He was influenced in his vedute by Marco Ricci and later Francesco Zuccarelli, who helped train him....
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