The monumental complex of the Gallerie dell'Accademia now occupies the prestigious seat of the Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità, one of the oldest secular confraternities in the city. The adjoining church of Santa Maria and the monastery of the Lateran Canons, built by Andrea Palladio, are also an integral part of it.
The museum houses the richest collection of Venetian and Veneto paintings, from the Byzantine and Gothic Trecento to Renaissance artists such as Bellini, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Veronese, Tintoretto, and Titian, continuing with Giambattista Tiepolo and the 18th-century view painters Canaletto, Guardi, Bellotto, and Longhi. Artists who
they influenced the entire history of European painting.
