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Gallerie dell'Accademia

Gallerie dell'Accademia

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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
Madonna of the ZodiacMadonna of the ZodiacCosimo Tura, 1459Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. LorenzoMiracle of the Cross at the Bridge of S. LorenzoGentile Bellini, 1500Visions of the Hereafter: Ascent of the BlessedVisions of the Hereafter: Ascent of the BlessedHieronymus Bosch, 1490Madonna and Child between Saints Catherine and Mary MagdaleneMadonna and Child between Saints Catherine and Mary MagdaleneGiovanni Bellini, 1490St. Mark rescues a SarracenSt. Mark rescues a SarracenJacopo Tintoretto, 1562AnnunciationAnnunciationGiambattista Pittoni, 1757Archangel Raphael and TobiasArchangel Raphael and TobiasTitian, 1513Cain and AbelCain and AbelJacopo Tintoretto, 1550The Rape of EuropaThe Rape of EuropaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1725The Virgin of CarmelThe Virgin of CarmelMoretto da Brescia, 1522Arrival of the English AmbassadorsArrival of the English AmbassadorsVittore Carpaccio, 1495Coronation of the Virgin PolyptychCoronation of the Virgin PolyptychPaolo Veneziano, 1330Dragan AltarpieceDragan AltarpieceGiovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1496Enthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ ChildEnthroned Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Christ ChildGiovanni Bellini, 1475L'indovinaL'indovinaGiovanni Battista Piazzetta, 1740Perspective View with PorticoPerspective View with PorticoCanaletto, 1765Presentation of Jesus in the templePresentation of Jesus in the templeJacopo Tintoretto, 1550Saint Jerome and a DonorSaint Jerome and a DonorPiero della Francesca, 1460The AnnunciationThe AnnunciationPaolo Veronese, 1578The Archangel Raphael with Saints James the Great and NicholasThe Archangel Raphael with Saints James the Great and NicholasGiovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1514The destruction of the temple of JerusalemThe destruction of the temple of JerusalemFrancesco Hayez, 1867The Dream of St. UrsulaThe Dream of St. UrsulaVittore Carpaccio, 1495The Presentation of the Ring to the Doges of VeniceThe Presentation of the Ring to the Doges of VeniceParis Bordone, 1534Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Joseph of Arimathea, the Virgin and Mary Magdalene, including SS. Martha and Philip BeniziLamentation over the Dead Christ with Joseph of Arimathea, the Virgin and Mary Magdalene, including SS. Martha and Philip BeniziGiovanni Bellini, 1510Madonna and Child BlessingMadonna and Child BlessingGiovanni Bellini, 1464