Open: Tues-Sat 9-19.00; Sun & Mon 9-14.00; L12000. The Academy of Fine Arts contains a extensive collection of the Venetian school of Painting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Including Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Proportions of the Human Body’, ‘the Storm’ by Giorgione, Tintoretto’s ‘Creation of the Animals’ and ‘Procession on the Piazza San Marco’ by Bellini. The Academy was founded by the painter Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and relocated to this building by Napoleon in 1807.
