Accademia di belle arti di Perugia "Pietro Vannucci" | |
Former names | l’Accademia del Disegno[1] |
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Type | academy of fine arts, private |
Established | 1573[1] |
President | Sergio Rampini |
Director | Paolo Belardi |
Students | more than 600 |
Undergraduates | painting, sculpture, artistic design for the enterprises, scenography |
Postgraduates | painting, sculpture, graphic arts, scenography |
Location | , , 43°06′49″N 12°22′58″E / 43.1137°N 12.3827°E |
Website | www |
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia ("Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia") is a private[2] tertiary academy of art in Perugia, in Umbria in central Italy. It is not one of the 20 official Italian state academies of fine art,[3] but is legally recognised by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research, which gives its full name as Accademia di Belle Arti Legalmente Riconosciuta di Perugia "Pietro Vannucci".[4] The academy became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999.[5][6]
The school was founded in 1573, and was initially named l’Accademia del Disegno (English: The Academy of Drawing).[1][7] The school was established on the initiative of the painter Orazio Alfani and the architect and mathematician Raffaello Sozi, and is among the oldest institutions of its kind in Italy; the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze had been established eleven years earlier.[8] The school occupies the former convent of the San Francesco al Prato.
There were many notable faculty, including Tommaso Minardi (from 1819 until 1822),[9] and Silvestro Valeri (from 1845 until 1873).[10] Students from the school included Annibale Brugnoli.[11]
The Royal Academy has an important collection of books, archives which include a gallery of over 600 plaster casts, and works of art accessible for research and display.[12]
In 1573 the same year as the school's founding, plaster casts that had been taken from Michelangelo's original sculptures at the Medici Chapel and donated to the school by Vincenzo Danti.[13] Other plaster casts in the gallery include works by Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen.[12] Paintings in the archives include works by Mariano Guardabassi, Annibale Brugnoli, Domenico Bruschi, Armando Spadini, Gerardo Dottori, Mario Mafai, Alberto Burri, among others.[12]