The academy of the drawing of Florence or Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno of Florence is the first artistic academy appeared in Europe.

It was created on January 31st, 1563, under the patronage of Cosme I {{er}}, by Giorgio Vasari on the foundations of the first organization of the painters of Florence organized by the Compagnia di San Luca , the Arte of the apothecaries, the doctors and the hardware stores (for the secrecies of their manufacture), installed at its beginnings in 1339 in the walls of the cloister of the Giardino San Marco .

It had Michel-Angel and Cosme Ier like first presidents, then Titien and Tintoret in 1566.

Pierre Léopold Large-duke of Tuscany, issues into 1784 that its various activities will be joined together under the same roof and that the academy will be famous Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (academy of the fine arts of Florence).
Elle is then installed street Ricasoli in an old old people's home and convent the Ospedale di San Matteo E del Convento di San Niccolò di Cafaggio .

It also decides that it must comprise philosopher's stones of the Masters for the training and the studies of the young artists what will become the Galleria dell' Accademia of Florence.

The large-duke also initiates the protection of the works of art by an academy of music Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini supplemented of a museum, the Museo degli strumenti musicali , the poor Opificio delle lasts workshop of hard stone mosaic which will become then the Istituto Centrale per it Restauro , a museum and a school of restoration of works.

Famous pupils

• Giuliano Bugiardini of famous the Accademia dei Giardini Medicei de San Marco with Florence, friend and disciple of Michel-Angel.
• Giovanni Balducci in 1578
• Cosimo Gamberucci in 1580
• Francesco Curradi in 1590
• Giovanni Battista Caccini (1556-1613)
• Zanobi del Rosso in 1749
• Luigi Sabatelli (1772-1850)
• Innocenzo Ansaldi (1734-1816)
• Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850)
• Gaetano Baccani (1792 - 1867)
• Adriano Cecioni (1836 - 1886)
• Odoardo Borrani (1832 - 1905)
• Giuseppe Bezzuoli (1784, 1855)
• Carlo Ademollo (1824 - 1911)
• Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908)]
• Silvestro Lega (1826-1895)
• Urbano Lucchesi (1844-1906)
• Carlo Ademollo (1824 - 1911)
• John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
• Lorenzo Garaventa (1913-)
• Norris Embry (1921-)
• Galileo Chini (1873-1956)
• Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) raises in 1902
• Giuseppe Viviani (1898-1965)
• Ottone Rosai (1895-1957)
• Frederic Leighton (1930-1996)
• Giuliano Vangi (1931-)

Teachers

• Giovanni Domenico Ferretti (1692 - 1768) painter

• Gaspare Paoletti (1727-1813) architect
• Luigi Ademollo (1764-1849)
• Pietro Benvenuti (1769-1844)
• Gaetano Baccani (1792 - 1867) in 1818 then Maestro of 1849 to 1867
• Giovanni Fattori, which will have, in 1902, with the Scuola Libera di Nudo Amedeo Modigliani as raises

Academicians

• Jacopo Vignali in 1622

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