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Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice

Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice

One of the great galleries of the world with many famous artists’ work

About the Accademia Gallery

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine and Saint Mary Magdalene,

Images: Didier Descouens Giovanni Bellini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Not to be confused with the gallery of the same name in Florence, the very popular Accademia Gallery in Venice was founded in 1750 to give the city an Academy of and for painters and sculptors.

Inside the Galleria dell’Accademia is an extraordinary collection of art from Byzantine through Gothic to the Renaissance artists.

The Accademia is about 5 minutes walk from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and well worth visiting.

In this guide you’ll learn about some of the artists you can see, download a floor plan of the Gallery and view opening times, location and the nearest vaporetto/waterbus stop.

There is also a section of three paintings in more detail.

Page Index for the Accademia Gallery

Accademia Gallery Opening Times & Information

Art Inside the Accademia Gallery

Download the Accademia Floor Plan

Travel/Getting to the Accademia

History of the Accademia

A Few Paintings in Detail
– Maddalena penitente (the Penitent Magdalene)
– Conversion and Crucifixion of the 10,000 Martyrs of Mt Ararat
– Processione in Piazza San Marco

Dorsoduro Hotels

Attractions Nearby

Accademia Information & Opening Times

Galleria dell’Accademia
	Opening Times Tuesday to Sunday: 9.00 am – 7.00 pm
	Closed on Mondays
	Admission Fee: Adult: €20.00 until October 18th, €15.00 after this date. Free admission for children under 18. The Gallerie dell’Accademia is open free of charge to everyone on the first Sunday of each month.
	Tours: – Private tour of the Dorsoduro district and the Galleria dell’Accademia – Private tour of the Accademia Gallery
	Close to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Art Inside the Accademia Gallery

Some of the major works of art to see in the Accademia Gallery

Pala di San Giobbe by Giovanni Bellini
Images: Giovanni Bellini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (1400’s)
Although this is only displayed rarely as the work is fragile and sensitive to light, if you’re there when it is being show, it’s a must see.

The Tempest (La Tempesta) by Giorgione (1506-1508)
The meaning of this artwork remains elusive.

Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese (1573)
This huge 43-foot-wide canvas. It was originally a Last Supper, but Veronese (who was tried by the Inquisition) changed the subject.

Pieta by Titian (1575-1576)
One of the last paintings by Titian, conflicting emotions and an unfinished painting.

Miracles of the Cross by Gentile Bellini and Carpaccio (1496)
Depicts a legendary 1444 event where a fragment of the True Cross fell into a canal during a religious procession.

Saint Job Altarpiece by Giovanni Bellini (1487)
Altarpiece in oils on panel by the Venetian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini. Inspired by a plague outbreak in 1485.

Stories of Saint Ursula by Vittore Carpaccio (1490-1495)
Nine canvases on the life and times of Saint Ursula.

Download the Accademia Floor Plan

To view the Accademia Gallery’s layout and floor plan, download the PDF below.

The floor plan details the first and second floors of the Gallery and the location of various artists work.

The ground floor shows art from 1600 to 1880 and the first floor shows art from 1300 to 1600.

Ground floor artists include Tiepolo, Canova, Borsato, Carriera and Fetti amongst others.

First floor artists on display include Veneziano, Bellini, Heronimus Bosch, Veronese, Tiziano and Tintoretto.

ACCADEMIA FLOOR PLAN

Travel/Getting to the Accademia

The Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Vaporetto Stop & Walking Information

	Walking From Times St Mark’s Square, 14 minutes / Peggy Guggenheim Collection 5 minutes *All times approximate
	Nearest Waterbus Vaporetto Stop Accademia – 1 minute Vaporetto line 1, Vaporetto line 2
	Vaporetto/Waterbus Tickets Buy vaporetto/waterbus tickets ➤
	Google Map Location

History of the Accademia Gallery

After the Fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, an enormous amount of artwork was confiscated from public palaces and churches. A selection of these masterpieces was sent to Paris, to be displayed at the Louvre and Milan. At the same time, a great number of paintings were lost after they were sold on the market.

Despite this, many works of the highest quality, belonging especially to the local tradition from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, ultimately found shelter in Venice’s Accademia di Belle Arti.

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was officially established in 1807 and in 1817, the museum was finally opened to the public attracting a large number of visitors.

In order to expand the collection, attempts were initially made to acquire works representative of all the major Italian and international painting traditions but, subsequently, the choice was made to focus on Venetian painting alone. This development led to the creation of the large, uniform collection of masterpieces from Venice and the Veneto region which is the hallmark of the museum even today.

A Few Paintings in Detail

Image: Galleria dell’Accademia

The Penintent Magdalene

Carlo Saraceni (1579-1620) was born in Venice and a follower of Caravaggio.

In this picture he places the young penitent Mary Magdalene, surrounded by a prayer book, skull and crucifix evoking a wholly physical expression of the saint’s repentance and atonement.

The delicate candor of the young model chosen by the painter differs from more traditional models in her dark hair, loose on her shoulders, while the subtle sensuality of the depiction, with the choice of elegantly sliding the shirt over the left shoulder to reveal her cleavage , is in keeping with seventeenth-century taste , simultaneously evoking the events of the former sinner Magdalene’s previous life.

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Image: Galleria dell’Accademia

Conversion and Crucifixion of the Ten Thousand Martyrs of Mount Ararat

Vittore Carpaccio (1465-1526)

Dated 1515, this altarpiece by Vittore Carpaccio tells the story of the ten thousand martyrs: nine thousand Roman soldiers who were sent to fight Armenian rebels suffer a grave defeat.

It is only thanks to their conversion to Christianity, which occurred after the apparition of an angel who instructed them in the precepts of the faith on Mount Ararat, depicted in the background, do they manage to defeat the enemy.

News of the event reaches the ears of the emperor, who, with six other pagan kings, recognizable as the men on horseback in the lower right, arrives to inflict on the converts the same tortures suffered by Christ during the Passion.

Thanks to the faith demonstrated by Achatius’ army, another thousand soldiers join them, deserving the same fate.

Image: Galleria dell’Accademia

Processione in Piazza San Marco

Gentile Bellini (1429 – 1507)

Gentile painted three of these canvases: the first, dated 1496 , was the one showing the procession in Piazza San Marco on 25 April 1444 during which the miracle of the immediate healing of the son of the Brescian merchant Jacopo de’ Salis occurred.

The scene is considered one of the earliest examples of Venetian landscape painting, with a wide viewing angle that allows for a precise representation of the square and the participants in the event.

The figures in the scene are meticulously depicted, large enough to accommodate portraits and accurately capture the various details of their social status, such as clothing and accessories.

At the head of the procession is the Doge. Beneath the canopy in the centre of the painting is the coffin containing the venerated relic.