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Gallerie dell'Accademia

Gallerie dell'Accademia

Venice, Italy · Website

The story

This is the place to see Venetian painting where it was made. The Gallerie dell'Accademia gathers the greatest collection of it anywhere, five centuries of Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto and Tiepolo, all within sight of the canals and light that shaped their colour.

The buildings were religious before they held art. The complex grew out of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carita, a medieval lay confraternity, and its church and monastery beside the Grand Canal. After Napoleon suppressed such institutions around 1800, the rooms were turned into an academy of fine arts and its gallery.

The pictures reward slow looking. Giorgione's small 'Tempest', from around 1508, sets a woman nursing a child and a soldier in a landscape under a bolt of lightning, and scholars have never agreed what it means. Carpaccio's storytelling cycles unroll across whole walls. The gallery also owns Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing of a man inscribed in a circle and a square, the 'Vitruvian Man', though it is so fragile that it comes out only rarely, kept in the dark between showings.

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Collection

64 works
The TempestThe TempestGiorgione, 1506The Feast in the House of LeviThe Feast in the House of LeviPaolo Veronese, 1573Miracle of the SlaveMiracle of the SlaveJacopo Tintoretto, 1547PietàPietàTitian, 1575Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints and AngelsMadonna and Child enthroned with Saints and AngelsGiovanni Bellini, 1480St Mark's Body Brought to VeniceSt Mark's Body Brought to VeniceJacopo Tintoretto, 1564The Hermit SaintThe Hermit SaintHieronymus Bosch, 1493Contarini MadonnaContarini MadonnaGiovanni Bellini, 1475Allegory of the Battle of LepantoAllegory of the Battle of LepantoPaolo Veronese, 1571Miracle of the Holy Cross at the Rialto BridgeMiracle of the Holy Cross at the Rialto BridgeVittore Carpaccio, 1496Saint GeorgeSaint GeorgeAndrea Mantegna, 1460The Mystic Marriage of St. CatherineThe Mystic Marriage of St. CatherinePaolo Veronese, 1575Madonna of the Red CherubimMadonna of the Red CherubimGiovanni Bellini, 1485Old WomanOld WomanGiorgione, 1506PietàPietàGiovanni Bellini, 1505Portrait of Procurator Jacopo SoranzoPortrait of Procurator Jacopo SoranzoJacopo Tintoretto, 1550Procession in St. Mark's SquareProcession in St. Mark's SquareGentile Bellini, 1496Saint John the BaptistSaint John the BaptistTitian, 1540Temptation of AdamTemptation of AdamJacopo Tintoretto, 1550The Presentation of the Virgin at the TempleThe Presentation of the Virgin at the TempleTitian, 1536Madonna of the Small TreesMadonna of the Small TreesGiovanni Bellini, 1487Portrait of a gentleman in his studioPortrait of a gentleman in his studioLorenzo Lotto, 1530Creation of the AnimalsCreation of the AnimalsJacopo Tintoretto, 1550Madonna and Child between Saint John the Baptist and a SaintMadonna and Child between Saint John the Baptist and a SaintGiovanni Bellini, 1504Madonna of the Orange TreeMadonna of the Orange TreeGiovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1496