TheAccademia di Belle Arti di Firenze(lit. 'academy of fine arts of Florence') is an instructionalart academyinFlorence,inTuscany,in central Italy.
 The Accademia di Belle Arti seen from Piazza San Marco | |
| Type | Academy of fine arts |
|---|---|
| Established | 1563 1784 (combination) |
| President | Carlo Sisi |
| Director | Claudio Rocca |
| Students | more than 1200 |
| Location | ,, Italy 43°46′39″N11°15′33″E/ 43.7775°N 11.2592°E |
| Website | accademia |
It was founded byCosimo I de' Mediciin 1563, under the influence ofGiorgio Vasari.Michelangelo,Benvenuto Celliniand 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,[1]and falls under the administration of theMinistero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca,the Italian ministry of education and research.[2]
The adjacent (but unaffiliated)Galleria dell'Accademiahouses the originalDavidbyMichelangelo.
History
editThe Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno, or "academy and company of the arts of drawing", was founded on 13 January 1563 byCosimo I de' Medici,under the influence ofGiorgio 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 theBasilica della Santissima Annunziata.[4]
Artists includingMichelangelo Buonarroti,Lazzaro Donati,Francesco da Sangallo,Agnolo Bronzino,Benvenuto Cellini,Giorgio Vasari,Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli,Bartolomeo Ammannati,andGiambolognawere members. Most members of the Accademia were male.Artemisia Gentileschiwas the first woman to be admitted;Angelika Kauffmannbecame a member in 1762.[5]: 481 The Accademia awardedMarianne Sessia gold medal in 1807.[6]
In 1784Pietro Leopoldo,Grand Duke of Tuscany,combined all the schools of drawing in Florence into one institution, the newAccademia 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 theAccademia delle Arti del Disegno.[3]
The Galleria dell'Accademia
editThe 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 originalDavidbyMichelangelosince 1873.[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^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.
- ^Accademie di belle arti(in Italian). Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca: AFAM – Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica. Accessed May 2015.
- ^abcAccademia 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.
- ^Francesco Adorno (1983).Accademie e istituzioni culturali a Firenze(in Italian). Firenze: Olschki.
- ^Wendy Wassyng Roworth (Spring 2004).Documenting Angelica Kauffman's Life and Art(review).Eighteenth-Century Studies37(3): 478–482.doi:10.1353/ecs.2004.0031.(subscription required).
- ^Mendel (1880).Musikalisches Konversationslexikon: eine Encyklopedie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften für Gebildete aller Stände(in German).
- ^Z. Wazbinski (1987).L'Accademia medicea del Disegno a Firenze nel Cinquecento(in Italian). Firenze: Olschki.
- ^Ragsdale, J. Donald (2020).Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion: Art, Edifice, and Social Influence.Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 96.ISBN978-1-5275-5669-0.
