19:15. The first director was the painter Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and was in the building of the "Fonteghetto della Farina" which is currently the Captaincy of the Port, shortly before reaching the Pier of San Marco. Gallerie dell’Accademia Phone. Only in 2004 the two companies separated and the Academy of Fine Arts found a new venue, better suited for the growing number of students and the evolution of its teaching, in the beautiful Palazzo degli Incurabili in the area of the ‘Zattere’. The Tempest. Towards the beginning are lovely early Renaissance collections, packed with colourful masterpieces by artists including Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio and Piero della Francesca. The museum is right by the Accademia vaporetto stop (lines 1 and 82) and the Accademia bridge over the Grand Canal. It is housed in the former Santa Maria della Carità church and convent complex, partly built by Italian Renaissance architect, Andrea Palladio. It is currently made up of over 800 paintings. Tuesday - Sunday the opening times are 8:15am-7pm. Make sure you allow yourself enough time for the gallery, as two of the Accademia's finest collections are near the end of the tour. This work belonged to the Milanese Cardinal Cesare Monti until 1784 along with other 16 drawings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. It is possible to see additional works from the gallery's collection in the Quadreria at certain times of the week and by pre-booked tour. The complex includes the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Carità and the Canonici Lateranensi monastery. Another of our personal highlights is the background of Cima da Conegliano's Madonna of the Orange Tree, where a fortified hilltown perches above cliffs. For tourists with an interest in art, the Accademia is an unmissable attraction. This can be done online or by telephone (+39 041 5200345). The last glory of Venice is celebrating the bicentennial of the foundation of the Galleries and the three Venetian intellectuals, Count Leopoldo Cicognara, the sculptor Antonio Canova and the painter Francesco Hayez, who since 1815 onwards have laid the foundations for the birth of a museum of international importance. Monday: from 8:15 am until 2 pm. Tintoretto took over 20 years to decorate its walls an cielings. Situated at the eastern end of Saint Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco), next to the Doge’s Palace, originally ... [read more], The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is a modern art museum overlooking the Grand Canal. The Gallerie dell'Accademia has the largest Venetian art collection in Venice and is one of the most important art galleries in the world. To visit the Academy Gallery of Venice you can buy your ticket online or, for those who want a more detailed visit, you can book a private tour of the Accademia, including without a problem, a visit to the historic city center. It had previously been part of the art academy of Venice, until it became independent from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and it was decided to bring all the pre-nineteenth century Venetian art together. We inform you that the Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, in compliance with the provisions of the Prime Ministerial Drecree of 3 November 2020, are closed until new provisions. The Accademia Gallery is located on the south bank of the Grand Canal, in the Dorsoduro neighborhood, at the foot of the Academy Bridge. Dit word gehuisves in die Scuola della Carità op die suidelike oewer van die Groot-Kanaal in Venesië binne die sestiere van Dorsoduro. Book Now. Ambassadors travel between England and Brittany, which are ornamented with little Venetian bridges, temples of Renaissance marble splendour and even a pet monkey. Between 1816 and 1856 the Accademia Galleries were enriched with the collections of Molin, Contarini, Renier and Manfrin, who enriched these wonderful galleries with indisputable masterpieces of Italian art. Among the most striking works, partly because its theme stands out among all this religious imagery, is Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study, where a pale and sensitive nobleman muses, surrounded by symbols of lost love (a letter, a shredded rose). Closed Monday afternoon, Christmas Day and New Years Day. The paintings are epic yet sweet, with lovely details like the scene of Ursula in bed. It is located in the monumental complex of the Great School of Santa Maria della Carità, which includes the church and the monastery of the Lateran Canons, built by Andrea Palladio, opposite the Accademia Bridge. In 1951 she began ... [read more], The exhibition Aldo Manuzio. Dorsoduro (447 m) Rooms are numbered and the gallery is laid out so that you will follow a route around from start to finish. surrounded by her belongings; her crown at the foot of the bed, her slippers and her little dog. The most overpowering room of all, though, is probably the large Room 10, which is dominated by Paolo Veronese's Christ in the House of Levi. Gentile Bellini's paintings here are both lovely depictions of Venice - in The Miracle of the True Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo , a swimming priest, by virtue of his holiness, manages to salvage the relic dropped in the canal during a procession.