Accademia Gallery
In the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice gathers centuries of training, collecting, and restoration under one roof. The art academy at the heart of this complex—the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia—was founded on 24 September 1750, with statutes dating from 1756. Its early leadership included Giovanni Battista Piazzetta as first director, and Gianbattista Tiepolo becoming the first president after returning from Würzburg. What you’re visiting today became a public museum in 1817: the collections were first opened to visitors on 10 August 1817. The gallery also reflects a Napoleonic reshaping of institutions—when the academy was re-founded by decree in 1807 and the collections were brought to the Palladian complex of the Scuola della Carità, still the museum’s home. Independence came later, in 1879, when the museum separated from the academy. …
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