Gallerie dell'Accademia
Art museum in Venice, Italy
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The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It houses the Leonardo da Vinci drawing The Vitruvian Man, which can only be exposed for a few weeks every six years for conservation reasons. It is housed in a building complex comprising the former Scuola Grande, church, and convent of Santa Maria della Carità 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.
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