Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin

Although the name "Albertina" refers to Carlo Alberto di Savoia, which is the decisive "refoundation" of the Academy in 1833, the origins of this are far more remote, so that the Academy of Turin can be considered one of the The most ancient of Italy. In the first half of the seventeenth century there is a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" in Turin, which becomes in 1652 "Company of St. Luke", which will take for the first time - The Academy's name in 1678, when Maria Giovanna of Savoy-Nemours, widow of Carlo Emanuele II, founded the Academy of Painters, Sculptors and Architects, inspired by the model of the Académie Royale in Paris. Following other reforms, under Vittorio Amedeo III (1778) and then during the Napoleonic rule, around 1833 a real "refoundation" was carried out by Carlo Alberto: the "Albertia Academy Director" is assigned a post-war post-war period.Between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the Academy duly accompanies the transition from realism to new art, in the direction of eclecticism, Liberty and a renewal of themes, landscape and gender painting, Who looks like Antonio Fontanesi, Giacomo Grosso, Cesare Ferro, and sculpture by Vincenzo Vela, Odoardo Tabacchi and Edoardo Rubino.