Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice
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Gallerie dell'Accademia

Venice · Italy · Founded 1817

Venice's foremost gallery of pre-nineteenth-century Venetian painting, on the Grand Canal at the foot of the Accademia bridge.

About Gallerie dell'Accademia

The Gallerie dell'Accademia opened in 1817 inside a former convent and church complex on the Grand Canal. The collection focuses on Venetian art from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.

Highlights include works by Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, and Tiepolo, alongside Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (shown periodically due to its fragility).

Collections & Highlights

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci
The Tempest by Giorgione
Feast in the House of Levi by Veronese
Pietà by Titian

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