Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
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The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno ("Academy of the Arts of Drawing") of Florence
promotes the safeguard of the works of art in Italy. Founded in 1563, it was the first academy of drawing
established in Europe
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, on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari
, it had been initially denominated Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno—Academy and Company for the Arts of Drawing—as it was divided into two different operative branches.
While the Company was a kind of corporation which every working artist in Tuscan should join, the Academy was constituted only by the most eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo’s court, and had the task of supervising the whole artistic production of the medicean state.
The extraordinary contribution of academics as Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco da Sangallo
, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini
, Giorgio Vasari
, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giambologna
, Tiziano, Tintoretto
, Palladio etc. increased the prestige of this institution, certainly not reduced to the politic and economic limits of the medicean principality. The first woman honoured with the admission in the academy was Artemisia Gentileschi
.
The granduca Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena, in 1784, subtracted all kind of professional artistic responsibility from the Company, conferring this task to the just founded Accademia di Belle Arti
. The Academics College of the prestigious medicean institution conserved the task of artistic formation and supervision of artistic production of the Granducato di Toscana.
The headquarters of the academy nowadays is Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai. The institution is divided in six classes: Painting Class, sculpture class, Architecture Class, History of Art Class, humanistic Disciplines and Sciences Class. The Academics are divided in Emerita, Ordinaries and Correspondents.
Among the Academics internationally famous are:
Moreover an unperiodically awarded title, that of Accademico d'Onore, is given by the Accademia for contributions to society and as a certificate of excellence in the political, scientific and cultural fields. Among the awarded are notable: Jasper Johns
, Alberto Ronchey
, Giulio Andreotti
, Louis A. Waldman
, the Nobel Prize
Rita Levi-Montalcini
and the Pritzker Prize
s Philip Johnson
, Jørn Utzon
, Robert Venturi
and Renzo Piano
.
The President is Prof. Arch. Luigi Zangheri
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
promotes the safeguard of the works of art in Italy. Founded in 1563, it was the first academy of drawing
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
established in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
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History of the Accademia
Founded by Cosimo I de' MediciCosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Cosimo I de' Medici was Duke of Florence from 1537 to 1574, reigning as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1569.-Biography:...
, on 13 January 1563, under the influence of the architect Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
, it had been initially denominated Accademia e Compagnia delle Arti del Disegno—Academy and Company for the Arts of Drawing—as it was divided into two different operative branches.
While the Company was a kind of corporation which every working artist in Tuscan should join, the Academy was constituted only by the most eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo’s court, and had the task of supervising the whole artistic production of the medicean state.
The extraordinary contribution of academics as Michelangelo Buonarroti, Francesco da Sangallo
Francesco da Sangallo
Francesco da Sangallo was an Italian High Renaissance sculptor, the son of the architect and sculptor Giuliano da Sangallo....
, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, painter, soldier and musician, who also wrote a famous autobiography. He was one of the most important artists of Mannerism.-Youth:...
, Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Giambologna
Giambologna
Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, incorrectly known as Giovanni da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna , was a sculptor, known for his marble and bronze statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style.- Biography :...
, Tiziano, Tintoretto
Tintoretto
Tintoretto , real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso...
, Palladio etc. increased the prestige of this institution, certainly not reduced to the politic and economic limits of the medicean principality. The first woman honoured with the admission in the academy was Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation influenced by Caravaggio...
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The granduca Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena, in 1784, subtracted all kind of professional artistic responsibility from the Company, conferring this task to the just founded Accademia di Belle Arti
Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze
The Accademia di Belle Arti is an art academy in Florence, Italy and it is now the operative branch of the still existing Accademia delle Arti del Disegno that was the first academy of drawing in Europe.-History:The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno The Accademia di Belle Arti ("Academy of Fine...
. The Academics College of the prestigious medicean institution conserved the task of artistic formation and supervision of artistic production of the Granducato di Toscana.
The headquarters of the academy nowadays is Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai. The institution is divided in six classes: Painting Class, sculpture class, Architecture Class, History of Art Class, humanistic Disciplines and Sciences Class. The Academics are divided in Emerita, Ordinaries and Correspondents.
Among the Academics internationally famous are:
- for the Painting Class: Leonardo Cremonini, Hans ErniHans ErniHans Erni is a Swiss painter, designer and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, he is known in particular for illustrating postage stamps, activism, lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, and participation on the Olympic Committee. The Hans Erni Museum, situated in the grounds of the Swiss Museum of...
, Lucian FreudLucian FreudLucian Michael Freud, OM, CH was a British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impasted portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time...
, Richard HamiltonRichard Hamilton (actor)Richard Hamilton was an American film, television, theater, and radio actor. He was raised in California, where he worked at the Pasadena Playhouse, before moving to Broadway. There, he performed in award-winning productions of Buried Child and Mornings at Seven...
, Anselm KieferAnselm KieferAnselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
, Piero Guccione.
- for the Sculpture Class: Arnaldo PomodoroArnaldo PomodoroArnaldo Pomodoro is an Italian sculptor. He was born on 23 June 1926, in Morciano, Romagna, Italy. He currently lives and works in Milan. His brother, Giò Pomodoro was also a sculptor....
, Giuliano VangiGiuliano VangiGiuliano Vangi is an Italian sculptor. He received the Praemium Imperiale prize, category sculpture, in 2002, considered the Nobel Prize of Arts....
, Dani KaravanDani KaravanDani Karavan is an Israeli sculptor best known for site specific memorials and monuments which merge into the environment, though he has made important installations as well as other significant contributions to art and architecture.- Biography :Dani Karavan's father Abraham was the chief...
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- for the Architecture Class: Massimo CarmassiMassimo CarmassiMassimo Carmassi is an Italian architect.- Biography :Massimo Carmassi graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Florence in 1970. In 1974, he established the Project Office of the Commune of Pisa and directed it till 1990. From 1981 to 1985, he was the chairman of the Architectural...
, Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Adolfo Natalini, Paolo PortoghesiPaolo PortoghesiPaolo Portoghesi is an Italian architect, theorist, historian and professor of architecture at the University La Sapienza in Rome...
, Aldo Loris Rossi, David Palterer, Franco Purini.
- For the History of Art Class: Wolfram Prinz, Erich Steingräber, Detlef Heikamp, Antonio Paolucci, Zygmunt Wazbinski, David Whitehouse.
- For the Humanistic disciplines and Science Class: Francesco Adorno, Franco Cardini, Umberto Colombo, Tullio Gregory, Salvatore AccardoSalvatore AccardoSalvatore Accardo is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, contemporary works, chamber music, and opera conducting....
, Carlo GinzburgCarlo GinzburgCarlo Ginzburg is a noted historian and proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for his Il formaggio e I vermi which examined the beliefs of an Italian heretic, Menocchio, from Montereale Valcellina.- Biography :The son of Natalia Ginzburg and Leone Ginzburg, he was born...
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Moreover an unperiodically awarded title, that of Accademico d'Onore, is given by the Accademia for contributions to society and as a certificate of excellence in the political, scientific and cultural fields. Among the awarded are notable: Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.-Life:Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed...
, Alberto Ronchey
Alberto Ronchey
Alberto Ronchey was an Italian journalist, essayist and politician. He was the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities from 1992 to 1994 in Giuliano Amato's cabinet and subsequently Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's cabinet. He was president of RCS MediaGroup from 1994 to 1998.-Works:* Le...
, Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti is an Italian politician of the now dissolved centrist Christian Democracy party. He served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1972 to 1973, from 1976 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1992. He also served as Minister of the Interior , Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and he...
, Louis A. Waldman
Louis A. Waldman
Louis Alexander Waldman is an American art historian specializing in the Italian Renaissance.-Career:Born near Detroit, Louis A. Waldman was educated at Hunter College and subsequently, Waldman studied with Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt at the Institute of Fine Arts of...
, the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini , Knight Grand Cross is an Italian neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of nerve growth factor...
and the Pritzker Prize
Pritzker Prize
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
s Philip Johnson
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...
, Jørn Utzon
Jørn Utzon
Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...
, Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century...
and Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. He is the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize...
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The President is Prof. Arch. Luigi Zangheri