Gallerie dell'Accademia Venice
Overview
Venice's premier art museum, in the former Scuola della Carita and convent complex beside the Grand Canal in Dorsoduro. Venetian painting from the 14th to 18th centuries: Titian's last Pieta, Carpaccio's cycles, Gentile Bellini's processions, and Leonardo's Vitruvian Man drawing, rarely shown.
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