The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is a public
tertiaryacademy of art in
Venice, Italy.
History
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] The academy was at first housed in a room on the upper floor of the
Fonteghetto della Farina [
it], a flour warehouse and market on the
Grand Canal, close to
Piazza San Marco. The space was insufficient, and students and teachers had to contend with the noise and dust of the market, which also occupied the first floor of the building.[2]
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 premises in the
Palladian complex of the
Scuola della Carità.[1][4]
In 1879, the Accademia di Belle Arti and the
Gallerie dell'Accademia became administratively separate, but continued to share the same buildings until 2004, when the art school moved to the present site, the former
Ospedale degli Incurabili. Like other state art academies in Italy, it became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999,[5] and falls under the
Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research.[6]
^"Canova, Antonio", The Dictionary of Art: volume V, ed. Jane Turner, in thirty-four volumes, 1996. Grove's Dictionaries Inc., New York, 1998. Print.
^Gallerie dell'Accademia: Storia delle collezioni (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. Archived 13 November 2013.
^Accademie di belle arti (in Italian). Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca: AFAM – Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica. Accessed July 2013.