Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice. The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.
   It is housed in the Scuola della Caritą on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, the art academy of Venice, from which it became independent in 1879, and for which the Ponte dell'Accademia and the Accademia boat landing station for the vaporetto water bus are named.
   The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili. Main article: Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756.
   The first director was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepolo became the first president after his return from Würzburg. It was one of the first institutions to study art restoration starting in 1777 with Pietro Edwards, and formalised by 1819 as a course.
   In 1807 the academy was re-founded by Napoleonic decree. The name was changed from Veneta Academia di Pittura, Scultura e Architettura to Accademia Reale di Belle Arti, royal academy of fine arts, and the academy was moved to the Palladian complex of the Scuola della Caritą, where the Gallerie dell'Accademia are still housed. The collections of the Accademia were first opened to the pu
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