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unusual facts about Ponte dell'Accademia


Ponte dell'Accademia

It crosses near the southern end of the canal, and is named for the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, which from 1807 to 2004 was housed in the Scuola della Carità together with the Gallerie dell'Accademia, which is still there.


Accademia degli Arcadi

The Accademia degi Arcadi was so called because its principal intention was to reform the diction of Italian poetry, which the founders believed had become corrupt through over-indulgence in the ornamentation of the baroque style, under the inspiration of pastoral literature, the conventions of which imagined the life of shepherds, originally supposed to have lived in Arcadia in the golden age, divinely inspired in poetry by the Muses, Apollo, Hermes and Pan.

Accademia degli Infiammati

This academy should not be confused with another Accademia degli Infiammati which was established at Forlimpopoli in 1624 by Dominican friar Giovanni della Robbia.

Accademia degli Svogliati

The English poet John Milton participated—and read his own work—at four meetings of the Accademia during his sojourn in Florence (June–August 1638).

Accademia di Cervo

The Accademia di Cervo, a prestigious music academy, was founded in 1988 by Professor Arnulf von Arnim and his wife Elfe in the attractive Italian seaside resort town of Cervo on the Ligurian Riviera.

Accademia Fiorentina

In 1783, by order of Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, the Accademia Fiorentina was merged, together with the Accademia degli Apatisti and the Accademia della Crusca, into the new Accademia Fiorentina Seconda.

Accademia Musicale Mediterranea

The Accademia Musicale Mediterranea has 4 locations: in Taranto, in Martina Franca, in Leporano and Grottaglie.

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

The Accademia suspended operations during the revolutionary period of the Napoleonic Wars but opened regularly again in 1822 a few years after the Restoration brought about by the Congress of Vienna.

Albano Lugli

At the Accademia di Modena was found his painting: Cactas cries on the tomb of Atala.

Anna Fedorova

She is currently a student of Leonid Margarius at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola, Italy.

Anthony R. Montalba

Henrietta was a noted sculptor who studied first at what was to become the Royal College of Art in South Kensington, and then in the Accademia di Belle Arti at Venice.

Anton Domenico Gabbiani

Born in Florence, Gabbiani first apprenticed with the Medici court portrait painter Justus Sustermans, then with the Florentine Vincenzo Dandini; subsequently moved to Rome in 1673 he arrived in Rome, where he studied under the Medici-sponsored Accademia Fiorentina, led by Ciro Ferri and Ercole Ferrata.

Antonio Carangelo

He received his musical training at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and the Accademia d'arte lirica in Osimo, Italy, and perfected his vocal technique through further studies with Mario del Monaco and Ettore Campogalliani, who was also the teacher of Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, and Renata Tebaldi.

Attilio Celant

“Premio San Marco” (San Marco Prize), sponsored by Accademia San Marco in Pordenone (Italy), awarded to Prof. Celant as "an example to follow and reference point for both the national and international academic world".

Busseto

Tenor (now retired) Carlo Bergonzi spends most of his time at I due Foscari, his hotel in Busseto, which also hosts the Accademia Verdiana.

Charles Follen McKim

McKim was a member of the Congressional commission for the improvement of the Washington park system, the New York Art Commission, the Accademia di San Lucca (Rome, 1899), the American Academy in Rome and the Architectural League.

Fateh Moudarres

After receiving his high school degree from the Aleppo American College, Moudarres studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome from 1954 to 1960 and developed a distinctive style of painting that incorporated both movements.

Gaetano Cima

He studied architecture in Turin and later in Rome at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, where he had as professors Luigi Canina and Luigi Poletti, famous Italian neoclassical architects.

Galleria dell'Accademia

As well as a number of Florentine Gothic paintings, the gallery houses the idiosyncratic collection of Russian icons assembled by the Grand Dukes of the House of Lorraine, of which Leopoldo was one.

The Galleria dell'Accademia was founded in 1784 by Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Gallerie dell'Accademia

The two institutions remained in the same building until 2004, when the art school moved to the Ospedale degli Incurabili.

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 Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy.

The Napoleonic administration had disbanded many institutions in Venice including some churches, convents and Scuole.

The Scuola della Carità was the oldest of the six Scuole Grande and the building dates back to 1343, though the scuola was formed in 1260.

Giuseppe Boccini

He was knighted with the Order of the Crown of Italy, became professor of the Consiglio Accademico of Florence, Correspondent Associate of the Royal Accademia Raffaello of Urbino, and Honorary Associate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Urbino.

Innocentio Alberti

When the Accademia was dissolved in 1560 Alberti went to work for the Este court in Ferrara, where he remained on the court rolls until the court's dissolution in 1598.

Ippolito Chamaterò

On January 1, 1562, he became maestro di cappella, music director, of the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, succeeding Francesco Portinaro, who had held the post the preceding year.

Italian Naval Academy

The Italian Naval Academy (Italian: Accademia Navale) is a coeducational military university in Leghorn (Livorno), which is responsible for the technical training of military officers of the Italian Navy.

Juan García de Basurto

In 2010 the Spanish group La Capilla Peñaflorida with the Accademia Bizantina of Ottavio Dantone made a video of the agendis mortuorum for NB musika.

La Scala Theatre Ballet School

Following the defeat of Napoleon, the school's name was changed to Imperial Regia Accademia di Ballo del Teatro alla Scala (Royal Imperial Dance Academy of the Teatro alla Scala).

Louis Lortie

He also teaches at Italy’s renowned Accademia Pianistica Internazionale at Imola.

Mark Fry

On leaving Dartington in 1970 he enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, where he studied painting under the Futurist Primo Conti.

Nikola Eftimov

In 2005 he won “The Coca Cola light fashion design award” that enabled him presentation of the winning design in Florence and the position of professor at Accademia Italiana Bangkok (2005–2006).

Norman Academy

The Norman Academy or L'Accademia Normanna is a non-profit association established for the promotion of the Arts and Letters, Humanities and Human rights defence throughout the world.

Olga Kern

She also studied with Boris Petrushansky at the Accademia Pianistica "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola.

Peter Elkus

His classes have been presented in 10 countries including University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, the Munich State Opera, the Accademia Musicale Ottorino Respighi in Assisi and Rome, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Piccola Accademia di Montisi

Held in Montisi, the Accademia's annual festival presents instrumental and vocal ensembles which showcase composers informed by the harpsichord.

Renato Pengo

During this period Pengo's most important exhibitions were in Salzburg (Romanischer Keller Gallery), Villach (An Der Stadtmauer), Rovigo (Accademia dei Concordi), Prato (International Exhibition of New Tendencies), Padova (Stevens Gallery, "Matrici e immagini"); Pengo also taught photography during this period.

Salvino Salvini

He was born in Livorno, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence under Luigi Bartolini, then moved to Rome where he continued studies at the Accademia Fiorentina in that city, studying under Pietro Tenerani.

Shuna Scott Sendall

As part of her prize, Shuna performed Dich Teure Halle from Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser followed by Tonight from West Side Story with Dame Kiri and José Carreras at BBC Proms In The Park in Hyde Park, London on Saturday 11 September 2010 and was given the opportunity to attend a three-week residential course at the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia in Italy.

Sociology of the history of science

A major development of the Scientific Revolution was the foundation of scientific societies: Academia Secretorum Naturae (Accademia dei Segreti, the Academy of the Mysteries of Nature) can be considered the first scientific community; founded in Naples 1560 by Giambattista della Porta.

Vincent Malo

Works of Vincenzo Malo are held in the collections of the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti (Genoa), Palazzo Bianco (Genoa), Palazzo Colonna (Rome), Galleria nazionale di Parma (Parma), Vatican Museums (Rome), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), Indiana University of Pennsylvania Art Gallery (Indianapolis) .

Xavier Tilliette

He is a member of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften of Munich), and, since 2006, a corresponding member Accademia di estetica internazionale de Rapallo.


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