Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia

Description

The monumental complex of the Gallerie dell'Accademia now occupies the prestigious center of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carita, one of the oldest secular brotherhoods in the city. They are an integral part also the homonymous church of Santa Maria and the monastery of the Lateran Canons, built by Andrea Palladio. The museum houses the largest collection of Venetian paintings, from the fourteenth century Byzantine and Gothic to Renaissance artists, Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto and Titian to reach Giambattista Tiepolo and the eighteenth-century landscape painters, Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto, Longhi. Artists who influenced the whole history of European painting.