Accademia Veneziana

Last updated

Accademia Veneziana
Formation1557
Dissolved1561
Formerly called
  • Accademia della Fama
  • Accademia Veneta

The Accademia Veneziana was an Italian learned society active in Venice from 1557 to 1561. It was founded by Federico Badoer and shut down by the Venetian government. [1]

It was followed by another Accademia Veneziana which was active from 1594 to 1608. [2]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Academy</span> Institution of higher learning

An academy is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

The Accademia dei Lincei is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Learned society</span> Organization promoting a field or discipline

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honour conferred by election.

A national academy is an organizational body, usually operating with state financial support and approval, that co-ordinates scholarly research activities and standards for academic disciplines, and serve as public policy advisors, research institutes, think tanks, and public administration consultants for governments or on issues of public importance, most frequently in the sciences but also in the humanities. Typically the country's learned societies in individual disciplines will liaise with or be coordinated by the national academy. National academies play an important organisational role in academic exchanges and collaborations between countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro</span> Italian mathematician (1853–1925)

Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Accademia della Crusca</span> Language regulator of Italian

The Accademia della Crusca, generally abbreviated as La Crusca, is a Florence-based society of scholars of Italian linguistics and philology. It is one of the most important research institutions of the Italian language, as well as the oldest linguistic academy in the world.

Roman academies refers to associations of learned individuals and not institutes for instruction.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna</span> Fine arts school in Bologna, Italy

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Accademia Cosentina</span>

The Accademia Cosentina is still an Italian accademia or learned society in Cosenza, Italy. It was founded in 1511–12 by Aulo Giano Parrasio and has a long and complex history, with several changes of name.

The Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, or more formally L'Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, and also called the Accademia dei XL, is Italy's national academy of science. Its offices are located within the Villino Rosso, at the corner of via L. Spallanzani and via Siracusa, Villa Torlonia, Rome.

The Accademia degli Svogliati was a 17th-century association of Italian men of letters in Florence. It began as a conversation on 5 November 1620 at the house of Jacopo Gaddi, where it continued to meet. It did not however acquire a name, an emblem or a statute until 22 January 1637. It flourished until about 1648. Gaddi was the driving force behind the Svogliati, as evidenced by the title of its statutes: "Statuti dell' Accademia degli Svogliati sotto il Principato dell'Illustrissimo Signore Jacopo Gaddi, suo Primo Principe e Promotore stabiliti".

The Pontifical Academy of Theology is a learned society founded in 1718, and is a Pontifical Academy. It is situated at Via della Conciliazione, Vatican City, Rome.

<i>Accademia Galileiana</i>

The Accademia Galileiana is a learned society in the city of Padua in Italy. The full name of the society is Accademia galileiana di scienze, lettere ed arti in Padova. It was founded as the Accademia dei Ricovrati in Padua in 1599, on the initiative of a Venetian nobleman, Federico Cornaro. The original members were professors in the University of Padua such as professor Georgios Kalafatis; one of its original members was Galileo Galilei. In 1779 the academy merged with the Accademia di Arte Agraria and became the Accademia di Scienze Lettere e Arti; in 1949 it became the Accademia Patavina di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti; its name was changed to Accademia Galileiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in Padova in 1997, in honor of Galileo. The academy is lodged in the Carraresi Palace in Padua.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Accademia Pontaniana</span>

The Accademia Pontaniana was the first academy in the modern sense, as a learned society for scholars and humanists and guided by a formal statute. Patronized by Alfonso V of Aragon, it was founded by the poet Antonio Beccadelli in Naples during the revival of classical learning and later led by Giovanni Pontano who gave it a more official character to the meetings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti</span> Italian painter (1801–1870)

Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti was an Italian painter, active in a Neoclassical style. He was also a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giovanni De Min (painter)</span> Italian painter

Giovanni De Min was an Italian painter and engraver, active in a Neoclassic style.

Accademia often refers to:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Accademia degli Umoristi</span>

The Accademia degli Umoristi founded in 1603 was a learned society of intellectuals, mainly noblemen, that significantly influenced the cultural life of 17th century Rome. It was briefly revived in the first half of the eighteenth century by Pope Clement XI.

Federico Badoer (1519–1593) was a diplomat of the Republic of Venice whose career was derailed in the 1560s by debts and unauthorized diplomacy.

References

  1. Shanti Graheli (2013), "Reading the History of the Academia Venetiana through Its Book Lists", in Malcolm Walsby; Natasha Constantinidou (eds.), Documenting the Early Modern Book World: Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print (Brill), pp. 283–319.
  2. Veneziana (Seconda Accademia) [ permanent dead link ]. Database of Italian academies. London: British Library. Accessed August 2014.