Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
Gallerie dell Accademia
Venice, Italy
One of the great galleries of the world with many famous artists’ work
About
Founded in 1750 to give the city an Academy of painters and sculptors, the Gallerie dell’Accademia is an extraordinary collection of art from Byzantine through Gothic to the Renaissance artists.
Artists include: Antonello da Messina, Lazzaro Bastiani, Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Bernardo Bellotto, Pacino di Bonaguida, Canaletto, Vittore Carpaccio, Giulio Carpioni, Rosalba Carriera, Cima da Conegliano, Domenico Fetti, Pietro Gaspari, Michele Giambono, Luca Giordano, Francesco Guardi, Giorgione, Johann Liss, Charles Le Brun, Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Longhi, Lorenzo Lotto, Andrea Mantegna, Rocco Marconi, Michele Marieschi, Giambattista Piazzetta, Giambattista Pittoni, Mattia Preti, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Titian, Paolo Veronese, Giorgio Vasari, Alvise Vivarini, and Giuseppe Zais.
Note
The collection includes Leonardo da Vinci’s famous drawing Vitruvian Man (1400s) which is displayed only rarely as the work is fragile and sensitive to light.
Information
WATER BUS STOP
Accademia – 1 min
WALKING FROM
St Mark’s Square, 14 minutes / Rialto Bridge, 15 minutes
*All times approximate
OPENING TIMES
Mondays: 8.15 am – 2pm
Tues – Sun: 8.15 am – 7.15pm
ENTRANCE FEE/TICKETS
Entrance €15.00
More information: Website
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