Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

Not to be confused with Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. For the Accademia art gallery in Florence, see Galleria dell'Accademia.
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

The Accademia di Belle Arti seen from Piazza San Marco
Type Academy of fine arts
President Luciano Modica
Director Giuseppe Andreani
Students more than 1200
Location Florence, Tuscany, Italy
43°46′39″N 11°15′33″E / 43.7775°N 11.2592°ECoordinates: 43°46′39″N 11°15′33″E / 43.7775°N 11.2592°E
Website www.accademia.firenze.it

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ("Academy of Fine Arts of Florence") is an art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy.

History

The Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno, or "academy and company of the arts of drawing", was founded on 13 January 1563 by Cosimo I de' Medici, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari.[1] It was made up of two parts: the Company was a kind of guild for all working artists, while the Academy was for more eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo’s court, and supervised artistic production in Tuscany.[1] It was later called the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. At first, the Academy met in the cloisters of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata.[2]

Artists including Michelangelo Buonarroti, Lazzaro Donati, Francesco da Sangallo, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini, Giorgio Vasari, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Giambologna were members. Most members of the Accademia were male; Artemisia Gentileschi was the first woman to be admitted.

In 1784 Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, combined all the schools of drawing in Florence into one institution, the new Accademia di Belle Arti, or academy of fine arts. It was housed in a former convent in via Ricasoli, premises which it still occupies.[3]

The Accademia Gallery

The Galleria dell'Accademia was founded in 1784; it adjoins the Accademia di Belle Arti in via Ricasoli, but is otherwise unconnected with it. It has housed the original David by Michelangelo since 1873.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (in Italian). Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo: Direzione Generale per le Biblioteche, gli Istituti Culturali e il Diritto d'Autore. Accessed October 2014.
  2. ↑ Francesco Adorno (1983). Accademie e istituzioni culturali a Firenze (in Italian). Firenze: Olschki.
  3. ↑ Z. Wazbinski (1987). L'Accademia medicea del Disegno a Firenze nel Cinquecento (in Italian). Firenze: Olschki.

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