Venice Academy Gallery
History, Permanent Collection Highlights
of the Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia.
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One of the best art museums in Europe, the Venice Academy Gallery (Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia) showcases some of the finest pre-19th century painting by Venetian, Florentine, Roman and other European artists. Occupying the Scuola Grande of Santa Maria della Carita - which includes the former Canonici Lateranensi monastery complex (designed initially by the great Venetian architect Andrea Palladio) - it stands on the south bank of the Grand Canal, and lends its name to one of the three bridges across the waterway, the Ponte dell' Accademia. |
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Despite the glorious achievements of Venetian Painting during the quattrocento (14th century) and cinquecento (15th century) - an era renowned for its promotion of colorito as opposed to disegno, an approach exemplified by a number of famous Venetian Altarpieces as well as countless examples of Venetian Portrait Painting - Venice's painters at the start of the 18th century were still members of a guild of manual workers, unlike painters in Florence and Rome, many of whom were members of their city's prestigious Academy of Art. Steps were taken to remedy this situation, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was finally founded in 1750. However, it wasn't until December 1766 that the civic authorities ordered the immediate erection of an Academy of sculpture, painting, and civil architecture, similar to the Academy of Art in Florence (Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno) and the Academy of Art in Rome (Accademia di San Luca). See also: Venetian Drawing (1500-1600). Giambattista Piazzetta was appointed at the Academy's first President, assisted by officials who included Giambattista Pittoni and Gianmaria Morlaiter. Thirty six artists were elected as founder members of the Academy. Painters included: Giuseppe Angeli, Tomasso Bugoni, Francesco Ceppella, Domenico Fontebasso, Pietro Gradizi, Jacopo Guarana, Antonio Joli, Alessandro Longhi, Pietro Longhi, Domenico Maggiotto, Jacopo Marieschi, Antonio Marinetti, Girolamo Colonna Mingozzi, Michelangelo Morlaiter, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Fortunato Pasquetti, Francesco Pavona, Antonio Visentini, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Francesco Zanchi, Gaetano Zompini, Francesco Zuccarelli, Antonio Zucchi, Francesco Zugno. Founding sculptors included: Giuseppe Bernardi, Francesco Bonassa, Francesco Gai, Carlo Gataipiera, Giovanni Marchiori, Bartolomeo Modulo, Gianmaria Morlaiter and Gaetano Susali. In 1807, during the city's occupation by Napoleon's army, the Venice Academy was renamed the Accademia Reale di Belle Arti and relocated to its current premises, formerly the home of the Convento dei Canonici Lateranensi, and the Scuola della Carita. The latter was the most ancient of the six Scuole Grande and dates back to 1260 (its building to 1343). |
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The Permanent Collection of the Venice Academy Gallery features an unrivalled assembly of masterpieces by Venetian painters from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The core of the collection was put together in the late 1750s. Works include religious panel paintings and canvases, a wide variety of figure painting - including miniature portrait paintings - as well as historical, landscape and genre works. Artists represented include members of the early Renaissance in Venice such as Gentile Bellini (c.1429-1507), Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), Andrea Mantegna (1430-1506), Antonello da Messina (1430-79) and Carlo Crivelli (c.1430-93); High Renaissance painters such as Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Carpaccio (c.1465-1525/6), Giorgione (1477-1510) and Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556); Late Renaissance masters like Titian (c.1488-1576), Paris Bordone (1495–1570); Mannerist painters such as Giovanni Savoldo (1506-48), Jacopo Bassano (1515-1592) and Tintoretto (1518-94); decorative artists like Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), and Tiepolo (1696-1770); Venetian view painters (vedutisti) such as Canaletto (1697-1768), Bernardo Bellotto (1721-80) and Francesco Guardi (1712-93); as well as the miniaturist Rosalba Carriera (1675-1757) and the genre painter Pietro Longhi (1701-85), to name but a few. Among the greatest works in the Permanent Collection of the Venice Academy Gallery is Leonardo's drawing known as Vitruvian Man (c.1487), probably the world's best known and most iconic piece of graphic art. This pen and ink drawing, sometimes referred to as the Canon of Proportions, is based on the ideal human measurements as outlined by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in his treatise De Architectura. Other masterpieces include: The San Giobbe Altarpiece (c.1487)
by Giovanni Bellini. Procession in St Mark's Square (c.1496)
by Gentile Bellini. The Legend of Saint Ursula (1497-1498)
by Vittore Carpaccio. The
Tempest (c.1506) by Giorgione. Fisherman Presenting Ring to Doge Gradenigo
(1534) by Paris Bordone. St Mark Freeing the Slave (The Miracle
of St. Mark) (1548) by Tintoretto. The
Feast in the House of Levi (c.1573) by Paolo Veronese. Pieta (c.1575) by Titian. Other famous works in the Venice Academy Gallery include: - St. George (c.1460) By Andrea
Mantegna.
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