Gallerie dell’Accademia Venice

Dorsoduro is the Sestiere (district) of Venice dedicated to art: some of the most important museums and collections in the city are located here. It is no coincidence that the Dorsoduro Museum Mile, a cultural journey that spans eight centuries of art, from the masterpieces of Middle Ages and Renaissance Venetian painting to the protagonists of the contemporary art scene, has been created. Four museums located between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal are included: Accademia Galleries, Palazzo Cini, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim and Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana.

At only 180 meters from our hotel you can find the Accademia Galleries which house paintings by Tintoretto, Giambattista Pittoni, Tiziano, Canaletto, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Vittore Carpaccio, Cima da Conegliano, Veronese and many others.

Discovering Venetian painting between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries

Established by Napoleonic decree in 1807 with educational purposes for the training of young artists, the Accademia Galleries now present the most complete collection of Venetian art in the world from 1300 to 1800.

The exhibition itinerary winds between the first floor, where works from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century are exhibited, and the ground floor, with works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Among the masterpieces that can be admired are Giorgione's La Tempesta (1507-1508), Madonna with Child between Saints Catherine and Mary Magdalene by Giovanni Bellini (1490), the Cycle of Stories of Sant'Orsola by Vittore Carpaccio (1490-1495 ), Boarding school at Casa Levi by Paolo Caliari known as Veronese (1572-1573).

Among the drawings in the collection there is also the famous "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo Da Vinci, the study of human proportions with an ideal figure in two different positions, with legs apart and joined, inscribed within the absolute shapes of the circle and square. For protection reasons, the work is exhibited only on rare occasions (this information is specifically reported on the official website www.gallerieaccademia.it).

During the year, the Accademia Galleries also host temporary exhibitions ranging from insights into some of the masters’ works in the permanent collections to collective and retrospective on contemporary artists.
Until 9 October 2022, for example, it is possible to visit an exhibition dedicated to Anish Kapoor, where a series of fundamental works is proposed, from early sculptures made with pigment, such as 1000 Names, to works on the void, up to sculptures never admired before created with Kapoor Black, an innovative nanotechnological material, a substance so dark that absorbs more than 99.9% of the visible light.

For more information about the works on display and / or the closed rooms, and the opening hours you can consult the official website www.gallerieaccademia.it