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Great Discoveries "Personal Tour Guides will provide you with the most enjoyable and informative way to visit the Accademia Galleries. Our carefully researched tour identifies and locates the most relevant treasures to ensure that you do not miss important works and that you clearly understand each items artistic and historic significance. As you view these carefully selected treasures, our professional narrators, accompanied by historically appropriate background music, will delight, amuse and inform you, making your visit a most memorable experience. Enjoy 500 years of art by the great Venetian masters, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, and others with Informative descriptions, photo's, building diagram, sample audio tracks and more.
Its origins go back to 1750 when the Venetian Republic decided to endow the city with an Academy of Painting and Sculpting and place it under the direction of Giambattista Piazzetta, a talented Venetian artist. In 1756, the Academy was granted official recognition and the core of the first group of works done by the pupils of the Academy was assembled. The collection grew considerably as numerous works from financially distressed churches and monasteries continuously poured in. From 1816 through 1856, bequests from Molin, Catarini, Venier, and Manfrin brought in new treasures.
People wonder why the name of the museum is Accademia Galleries in the plural, even though there is only one single museum. Actually, the museum originally had two separate sections, one for paintings, and the other for the plaster casts used by art students and the plural name has remained.
Today the Accademia Galleries house the most essential collection of Venetian paintings in the world. The works of Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Bellini, Gentile Bellini, Andrea Mantegna, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano Vecellio (Titian), Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, Gian Battista Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Giambattista Piazzetta, Pietro Longhi and others and others are displayed here. Carpaccio’s Stories of St. Orsola and Tintoretto’s Stories of St. Marco are the most complete series in the museum.
For a short time, the Galleries fell under control of Austria and the Hapsburg Dynasty. The Austrian Government neglected the Galleries and it fell into ruin, only to be saved, ironically, by the return of the French. Viceroy Napoleon Eugenio restored the school and elevated it to the same status as that of academies in Florence.
Up until this point, the school was located in the Fonteghetto della Farina, a small wheat house. The school required more space and they chose to relocate to a group of buildings that had belonged to the Santa Maria della Carita Church. They took over the Palladian Convent of the Lateran Canons, the Santa Maria della Carita Church, and the Scuola di Santa Maria della Carita. Scuola is a Greek word that means an organization dedicated to prayer, assistance, and/or education. The Scuola di Santa Maria della Carita, founded in 1260, is the oldest of the six major guilds of Venice.
The architect Giannantonio Selva was put in charge of restructuring the buildings. He felt that it was important to respect the style of the building’s original designer, Palladio. He removed the churches furnishings and divided the Gothic building into two floors, which he adapted to house the school and the exhibition rooms, pretty much as you see them today.
The events that were taking place in Europe and Venice caused the Galleries to take a political stand. After Venice’s annexation to the Kingdom of Italy in 1805, the school rescued countless works of art and religious artifacts from the churches and cultural houses that were destroyed during the Napoleonic reign. Many of the works exhibited in the Galleries today are the only evidence remaining of the destroyed churches and other cultural institutions.
The Accademia Galleries opened to the public on August 10, 1817and from that day on the Galleries have assumed their rightful place as one of the world’s most renowned art museums.
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The
Accademia Galleries of Venice Italy contains an unparalleled collection
of paintings 
After
the government approved the schools charter, they finally decided
to allocate funds to operate both the school and the Galleries.
In 1768, the school introduced classes in art perspective and architecture.
In August of 1796, Napoleon’s empire threatened to overtake
Venice so the Galleries, along with the guilds, attempted to organize
a resistance. Unfortunately, their efforts were in vain. Venice
was overrun, and its treasures became a toy to be passed around
amongst the greater European powers.
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