Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

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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
President
Carlo Sisi
DirectorClaudio Rocca
Studentsmore than 1200
Location
Florence
,
Tuscany
,
Italy

43°46′39″N 11°15′33″E / 43.7775°N 11.2592°E / 43.7775; 11.2592
Websiteaccademia.firenze.it

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (lit. 'academy of fine arts of Florence') is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy.

It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini and other significant artists have been associated with it.

Like other state art academies in Italy, it became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999,

Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research.[2]

The adjacent (but unaffiliated) Galleria dell'Accademia houses the original David by Michelangelo.

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.[3] It was made up of two parts: the company was a kind of guild for all working artists, while the academy was a more select group of artists responsible for supervision of artistic production in the Medici state.[3] At first, the academy met in the cloisters of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata.[4]

Artists including

Angelika Kauffmann became a member in 1762.[5]: 481  The Accademia awarded Marianne Sessi a gold medal in 1807.[6]

In 1784

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.[7]

In 1873 the Accademia was divided into two separate bodies: the teaching institution, the Accademia di Belle Arti; and the college of academicians, which was named the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno.[3]

The Galleria dell'Accademia

Main article: Galleria dell'Accademia

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.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Legge 21 dicembre 1999, n.508: Riforma delle Accademie di belle arti, dell'Accademia nazionale di danza, dell'Accademia nazionale di arte drammatica, degli Istituti superiori per le industrie artistiche, dei Conservatori di musica e degli Istituti musicali pareggiati. (in Italian). Gazzetta Ufficiale, 4 gennaio 2000 n.2. Archived 1 October 2011.
  2. ^ Accademie di belle arti (in Italian). Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca: AFAM – Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica. Accessed May 2015.
  3. ^ a b c 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.
  4. ^ Francesco Adorno (1983). Accademie e istituzioni culturali a Firenze (in Italian). Firenze: Olschki.
  5. doi:10.1353/ecs.2004.0031
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  6. ^ Mendel (1880). Musikalisches Konversationslexikon: eine Encyklopedie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften für Gebildete aller Stände (in German).
  7. ^ Z. Wazbinski (1987). L'Accademia medicea del Disegno a Firenze nel Cinquecento (in Italian). Firenze: Olschki.
  8. ISBN 978-1-5275-5669-0
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