The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public

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, in

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in northern Italy. It has a campus in

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taught

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at the Accademia for more than 25 years.

History

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Background

The earliest art academy documented in Bologna was the Accademia dei Desiderosi, later known as the

Accademia degli Incamminati The Accademia degli Incamminati (Italian for "Academy of Those who are Making Progress" or "Academy of the Journeying") was one of the first art academies in Italy, founded in 1582 in Bologna. It was founded as the Accademia dei Desiderosi ("Acad ...

, founded in or before 1582 by

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, Agostino and

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, and sometimes known also as the Accademia dei Carracci. In 1706, Giampietro Zanotti and other artists met at

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to establish a new academy. The Accademia dei Pittori was inaugurated in the house of

Luigi Ferdinando Marsili Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (or Marsigli, Lat. ''Marsilius''; 10 July 1658 – 1 November 1730) was an Italian scholar and eminent natural scientist, who also served as an emissary and soldier. Biography Born in Bologna, he was a membe ...

on 2 January 1710; the statute was approved by pope

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in October 1711, and the academy took the name Accademia Clementina. It became part of the Istituto delle Scienze e Arti Liberali, founded with the support of the pope by Marsili on 12 December 1711, which in 1714 changed its name to

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. The Accademia Clementina occupied one floor of

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, at that time known as Palazzo Cellesi; the Accademia delle Scienze was on the floor above, and the Specola, or astronomical observatory, above that.

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and

Donato Creti Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bo ...

taught at the Accademia Clementina, as did three members of the Galli family of

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s from

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in the

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: Ferdinando,

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and

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. Other artists associated with the academy include

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Gaetano Gandolfi Gaetano Gandolfi (31 August 1734 – 20 June 1802) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque and early Neoclassic period, active in Bologna. Career Gaetano was born in San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, to a family of artists. Ubaldo ...

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and

Angelo Venturoli Angelo Venturoli (1749 – March 7, 1821 in Bologna) was an Italian architect. He was born in Medicina in the Province of Bologna, and trained at the Accademia Clementina, under Petronio Fancelli. By 1781, he was an academic, and from 1786 to 18 ...

. The Accademia Clementina was suppressed in 1796 after the

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The Accademia di Belle Arti

In 1802 the Napoleonic administration founded a new academy, the Accademia Nazionale di Belle Arti di Bologna, in the buildings of the former Jesuit church and convent of Sant'Ignazio, built by

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between 1728 and 1735. The name was changed in 1805 to Reale Accademia di Belle Arti; in 1815, following the fall of Napoleon and the return of papal authority, the academy was again renamed, to Accademia Pontificia di Belle Arti. After the

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it became the Regia Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. In 1882, administration of the Pinacoteca, the art collection of the academy, was separated from that of the school, and handed over to the Direzione delle Antichità e Belle Arti (now the

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). The two institutions continued to share the same building. With the educational reforms of

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in 1923, the academy ceased all secondary education and became a tertiary-level institution; architecture courses were transferred to the

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. Like other state art academies in Italy, the Accademia of Bologna became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999, and falls under the

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, the Italian ministry of education and research. In December 2008 students of the academy occupied it for a week; an eighteenth-century plaster cast was broken.

The new Accademia Clementina

The Accademia Clementina was re-founded as a

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in 1931. It shares the premises of the Accademia, and has three classes of membership: honorary members; "effective" members, who are the teaching staff of the Accademia; and correspondent members. It publishes a

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, the ''Accademia Clementina. Atti e Memorie''.

Alumni

Alumni of the Accademia include

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, Oreste Carpi,

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and

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History

Background

The Accademia di Belle Arti

The new Accademia Clementina

Alumni

See also

References

Further reading