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Venetian Renaissance masterpieces at the Accademia Gallery, at your own pace.
Stroll through the Accademia Gallery for two hours with an art historian guide, seeing well-known works from Veronese, Titian, Giorgione, and Bellini.
A private, personalized-pace tour of the Accademia Gallery with an art historian guide, taking in works by Veronese, Titian, Giorgione, Bellini, and others.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your guide at the Accademia Gallery, Venice.
Expert context on Venetian Renaissance masterpieces.
See major works by Venice's greatest painters.
Your guide walks you back to a convenient point near your hotel.
Stroll through the Accademia Gallery for two hours with an art historian guide, seeing well-known works from Veronese, Titian, Giorgione, and Bellini. A private, personalized-pace tour of the Accademia Gallery with an art historian guide, taking in works by Veronese, Titian, Giorgione, Bellini, and others.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia began life on September 24, 1750, as a training academy for painters, sculptors, and architects, founded by the Senate of the Venetian Republic. It only became a public gallery of the scale you see today after the Republic fell in 1797 — when Napoleon's suppression of Venice's churches and religious orders sent a flood of confiscated artwork somewhere it needed to be preserved. In 1807, the academy itself was reorganized and moved into the former Santa Maria della Carità complex, where it still stands, now the largest single collection of Venetian art anywhere.
That collection runs to more than 800 paintings and sculptures from the medieval period through the 18th century, with major works by Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Giorgione, and Veronese — the artists who essentially defined what 'Venetian painting' looks like, seen here in the kind of depth and quantity no single church or palace in the city can match.
The gallery also holds Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, though you shouldn't count on seeing it — the drawing is so sensitive to light that it's displayed only briefly, roughly once every six years, and kept in a climate-controlled vault the rest of the time. Its most recent public outing was a 2019 loan to the Louvre, marking 500 years since Leonardo's death.
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