Accademia (Venice)

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Facade of the Accademia Gallery

The Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice , or Accademia for short , is a museum housed in the buildings of the former brotherhood of Santa Maria della Carità. Initially, it was assigned to the Art Academy for Painting and Sculpture ( Accademia di belle arti di Venezia ) and became an independent museum in 1882.

General

The Accademia is located in the Dorsoduro sestiere on the south bank of the Grand Canal and houses the world's largest collection of Venetian paintings from Gothic to Rococo . The Ponte dell'Accademia , one of the four bridges that cross the Canal, was named after her.

The collection is housed in three buildings: the Scuola Santa Maria della Carità, the Santa Maria della Carità church, built by Bartolomeo Buon in the mid-15th century, and the Lateran Canon convent designed by Palladio . The Scuola, founded around 1343, was the oldest of the six Scuole Grandi in Venice and still receives the monumental image of the Temple of Mary by Titian in its original location. The construction of the convent began in 1561 under Palladio, but remained unfinished. The devastating fire of 1630 destroyed the Palladio building with the exception of the few remains that have been preserved after the subsequent renovations. During and after the Second World War, exhibition rooms were redesigned by Carlo Scarpa .

history

It got its name from the art academy Accademia di belle arti di Venezia , which was founded in 1750 under the direction of the painter Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and which had its seat there. In 1756 it was officially recognized by the Republic of Venice and was named Accademia di Belle Arti under the presidency of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo . Under Napoleon, the academy was transformed into the first public art school in Venice. An art collection was founded for the students at the same time and opened on August 10, 1817 as the Galerie dell'Accademia , which forms the core of the current collection. The pictures came from the monasteries and churches that were abandoned during the secularization and from foundations and bequests of private art collectors. Some of the pictures had been dragged from Italy to Paris by Napoleon and were later returned by France. The museum owes other pictures to the skillful purchasing policy of its directors. In 1882 the Accademia Gallery became an independent museum.

The collection

Giorgione: La Tempesta / The Thunderstorm
Giambattista Pittoni: Annunciation (L'Annunciazione), 1757

The collection includes pictures by Bassano , Gentile and Giovanni Bellini , Bellotto (called Canaletto), Carpaccio , Rosalba Carriera , Cima da Conegliano , Crivelli , Giorgione , Guardi , Hayez , Katharina von Bologna , Lotto , Maffei , Mantegna , Palma Vecchio , Palma Giovane , Giambattista Pittoni , Paolo Veneziano , Paris Bordone , Pietro da Cortona , Pordenone , Sebastiano and Marco Ricci , Tiepolo , Tintoretto , Tizian , Veronese , Antonio Vivarini , Alvise Vivarini and Bartolomeo Vivarini , Zuccarelli and others.

Web links

Commons : Accademia (Venice)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Accademia Venezia, Historical Background ( Memento from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Gallery dell'Accademia Storia delle Collezioni

Coordinates: 45 ° 25 ′ 52.5 ″  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 40.7 ″  E