Accademia degli Incamminati

Coordinates: 44°09′20″N 11°47′14″E / 44.155417°N 11.787139°E / 44.155417; 11.787139
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44°09′20″N 11°47′14″E / 44.155417°N 11.787139°E / 44.155417; 11.787139 The Accademia degli Incamminati (Italian for "Academy of Those who are Making Progress" or "Academy of the Journeying") was one of the first art academies in Italy, founded in 1582 in Bologna.

It was founded as the Accademia dei Desiderosi ("Academy of the Desirous") and sometimes known as the Accademia dei Carracci after its founders the three Carracci cousins: Agostino, Annibale and Ludovico. Annibale headed the institution thanks to his strong personality.

The birth of this and other academies indicated artists' desire to be seen on the same level as poets and musicians, rather than as just artisans and the Accademia degli Incamminati soon providing a meeting space for other intellectuals, such as the doctor

Counter Reformation Catholic church. Considered "the first major art school based on life drawing", the Accademia was the model for later art schools throughout Europe.[1]

The style the new academy was aiming for was "an eclectic ideal", taking (in the words of a sonnet from Agostino Carracci to

Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo
also wrote on that style in his Idea del tempio della pittura (1591).

Bibliography

  • (in Italian) Claudio Strinati, Annibale Carracci, Firenze, Giunti Editore, 2001
    ISBN 88-09-02051-0

References

  1. OCLC 935594325
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Cirici Pellicer, El barroquismo, Editorial Ramón Sopena, Barcelona 1963, page 75

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