Venice Academy of Fine Arts

The Academy of Fine Arts in Venice is an art academy, hosted, as regards the headquarters, in the former Hospital of the Incurables and with a branch located at the Island of San Servolo dedicated to New Technologies for Art (NTA).

The institution was born on September 24, 1750 by the will of the Venetian Senate as the "Venetian academy of painting, sculpture and architecture": the first director was Gianbattista Piazzetta, the first president Giovanni Battista Tiepolo flanked by advisors Gianbattista Pittoni and Giovanni Maria Morlaiter. In 1758 Gianbattista Pittoni took over from Tiepolo as president, and continued to teach at the Academy of Venice until his death in 1767, thus influencing the Venetian painters of the whole following generation.

There were four main teachings: Figure, Portrait, Landscape, Sculpture, whose Masters were chosen from year to year among the thirty-six professors belonging to the Academic College. In 1768 also the teaching of Perspective and Architecture was established. The Venetian academy also immediately took care of the restoration of works of art, particularly pictorial, so much so that Pietro Edwards, in 1777, developed a sort of ante litteram restoration charter and, in 1819, founded the establishment of a Formal Public School for the Restoration of Damaged Paintings ".

In 1807 it was reformed into the "Royal Academy of Fine Arts" and transferred from the first seat of the Fonteghetto della Farina to the premises of the former convent and School of Santa Maria della Carità.

As early as 1798, many masterpieces for educational purposes had arrived at the headquarters of the Academy, which constituted the embryo of the Gallerie dell'Accademia, open to the public since 1817.

Among the artists who taught in the Academy we mention Piazzetta, Pittoni, Tiepolo, Antonio Rotta, Hayez, Luigi Nono, Ettore Tito, Arturo Martini, Alberto Viani, Giuseppe Cesetti, Carlo Scarpa, Afro, Giuseppe Santomaso, Edmondo Bacci, Gino Morandis, Luigi Tito, Luciano Gaspari, Emilio Vedova, Riccardo Schweizer.

Map: Venice Academy of Fine Arts

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Address: Fondamenta Zattere Allo Spirito Santo, 423, 30123
Venezia (VE) Veneto
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