Accademia di belle arti di Carrara | |
![]() Palazzo Cybo-Malaspina, which houses the accademia | |
Type | academy of art |
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Established | 26 September 1769 |
Director | Luciano Massari [1] |
Location | , , Italy 44°04′42″N10°05′57″E / 44.0782°N 10.0992°E |
Campus | Via Roma 1, 54033 Carrara (MS) |
Website | www |
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara is a public tertiary academy of art in Carrara, in Tuscany, Italy. It was founded on 26 September 1769 by Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, duchess of Massa and princess of Carrara; but its origins go back to 1757, when, on the advice of the sculptor Giovanni Domenico Olivieri , she founded the Accademia di San Ceccardo in which sculpture, architecture and painting were to be taught. [2] To house it, she commissioned Filippo del Medico to design and build a new building (which is now the Biblioteca Civica); in 1807, by order of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, the accademia was moved the Palazzo del Principe. The school of architecture was at first under Filippo del Medico; Giovanni Antonio Cybei was head of the school of sculpture. [3] : 227
Like other state art academies in Italy, it became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999, [4] and falls under the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research. [1]