Galleries of the Academy of Venice

Galleries of the Academy of Venice, museum of art in Venice housing an unrivaled collection of paintings from the Venetian masters of the 13th through 18th century. There are outstanding works by Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Rosalba Carriera, and Canaletto. The museum is also home to a collection of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, notably the Vitruvian Man.

The Galleries of the Academy of Venice were originally a part of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (a school that was first established in 1750 as the Venetian Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and renamed by Napoleon in 1807). The galleries opened to the public in 1817 and remained under the management of the school until 1879, when the two separated. Both institutions, however, continued to occupy the former monastery, church, and school of Santa Maria della Carità. In the early 21st century the school moved to the former Hospital of the Incurable, and the museum took over the entire Santa Maria della Carità complex.