Academy of Fine Arts in Venice

The Academy of Fine Arts in Venice was founded on 24 September 1750; The statute dates from 1756. [1] The first director was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepolo became the first president after his return from Würzburg. [2] The academy was first housed in a room on the upper floor of the Farfalle Fonteghetto, a flour warehouse and market on the Grand Canal, near Piazza San Marco. The space was insufficient, and students and teachers had to contend with the noise and dust of the market, which also occupied the first floor of the building. [2] Antonio Canova studied at the academy in the 1770s. [3] In 1807, the academy was re-founded by the Napoleonic Decree. The name was changed from Veneta Academia of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture to Royal Academy of Fine Arts, "Royal Academy of Fine Arts", and the academy was moved to the Palladian complex of the Scuola della Carità. ] In 1879, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Galleries of the Academy became administratively separate, but continued to share the same buildings until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili. Like other state art academies in Italy, it became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999 [5] and falls under the Ministry of Education, University and Research, the Italian Ministry of Education and Research [6].