The Accademia Galleries in Venice
Milan: Mondadori Electa S.p.A., 2005. Item #1506 8vo. 240 x 160 mm., [9 ½ x 6 ½ inches]. 82 pp. With ninety-two color photographs and seventeen black and white floor plans. Publishers’ illustrated softcover wrapper. Book is As New: a copy that has seen very little use. First edition 1998, Reprint 2005. The Gallerie dell’Accademia is an art museum in Venice that grew out of the collection of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia founded in 1750. Beginning in 1807, the Gallerie was transferred to its present location in the Palladian complex of the Scuola della Carità later to be opened to the public in 1817. Today, the museum specializes in Venetian art from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries and is notable for housing da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man in addition to works by Bellini and Titian among many other old masters. The present work presents an illustrated guide to a selection of the paintings exhibited in the Gallerie alongside a brief historical sketch detailing the museum’s founding and expansion over the past two centuries. It was translated from the Italian by Ivor Neil Coward.
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