Brera Academy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Template:Lit), also known as the Script error: No such module "Lang". or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public museum for art. In 2010 an agreement was signed to move the accademia to a former military barracks, the Caserma Magenta in via Mascheroni.[1]Template:R/superscript In 2018 it was announced that Caserma Magenta was no longer a viable option, with the former railway yard in Via Farini now under consideration as a potential venue for the campus extension.[2]

History

The academy was founded in 1776 by Maria Theresa of Austria. In typical Enlightenment fashion, it shared premises with other cultural and scientific institutions – the astronomical observatory, the Orto Botanico di Brera, the Scuole Palatine for philosophy and law, the Gymnasium, laboratories for physics and chemistry, the Biblioteca di Brera, the agricultural society and, from 1806, the Pinacoteca di Brera or art gallery.[3]Template:R/superscript These were housed in the Palazzo Brera, which was built in about 1615 to designs by Francesco Maria Richini, and until the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773 had been a Jesuit college.[4]Template:R/superscript

File:Brera-MainCourtYard.jpg
The courtyard, with a bronze copy of Antonio Canova’s statue of Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker

The academy

Like other state-run art academies in Italy, the Accademia di Brera falls under the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research.[5]Template:R/superscript In accordance with presidential decree 212 dated 8 July 2005, it awards first- and second-level degrees, specialised degrees, master's degrees and doctorates.[6]Template:R/superscript

The accademia has three departments: the department of visual arts, with courses in decorative art, graphic art, painting and sculpture; the department of design and applied art, which has courses in art restoration, design for business, new technologies of art and scenic design; and the department of communication and education in art, with courses in conservation of cultural heritage and in art education.[7]Template:R/superscript

It has about 3,800 students, including about 1,000 foreign students (mostly postgraduates).[8] It participates in the ERASMUS programme, and exchanges students and teachers with institutions in other countries in Europe and elsewhere.[9]

The picture gallery

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The picture gallery of the accademia, now the Pinacoteca di Brera, was started in 1806, in Napoleonic times.[3]Template:R/superscript Large numbers of paintings were brought to Milan after the suppression of the convents by Napoleon. The façade of the church of Santa Maria in Brera of the former monastery was torn down and the nave of the church was divided horizontally; the upper floor became the Napoleonic rooms of the art gallery of the Accademia, which opened in 1809 as the Reale Galleria, and the lower floor housed the sculptures of the museum of antiquities. A Sala dei Moderni, which held contemporary works, was started in 1806 by Giuseppe Bossi.[3]Template:R/superscript The Pinacoteca became independent of the accademia in 1882, though both remain in Palazzo Brera.[3]Template:R/superscript

Academics and alumni

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Alumni of the academy include the playwright Dario Fo, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature;[10] and the Futurist painter Carlo Carrà, who also taught at the academy from 1939 to 1952.[11]Template:R/superscript

Others who have taught at the Brera include the Venetian painter Francesco Hayez, professor of painting from 1822 to 1880;[12]Template:R/superscript and the architect and writer Camillo Boito, who was professor of architecture from 1860 to 1909, and for part of that time also president of the academy.[13]Template:R/superscript

Curiosity

The Contemporary Art Library of the Academy[14] is one of the 24 libraries in the world that own the "Treatise on Demonology, Summa verborum, numeri, temporis et spatii" by Filippo Biagioli.

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

  1. ↑ Paola D'Amico (19 July 2010). Accademia di Brera: oggi il sì al trasloco nell' ex Caserma Magenta (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. Accessed July 2015.
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ a b c d Giovanna Cassese (2013). Accademie: Patrimoni di Belle Arti (in Italian). Rome: Gangemi Editore. Template:ISBN.
  4. ↑ Giuseppe Schio (1930). Brera (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2015.
  5. ↑ Accademie di belle arti Script error: No such module "webarchive". (in Italian). Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca. Accessed January 2017.
  6. ↑ Regolamento didattico: Art. 2. Titoli e corsi di studio (in Italian). Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Accessed July 2015.
  7. ↑ Corsi di Diploma Accademico di 1°livello: Offerta formativa 2014-2015 (in Italian). Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. Accessed July 2015.
  8. ↑ Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
  9. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  10. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  11. ↑ Giuseppe Marchiori (1977) Carrà, Carlo (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 20. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2014.
  12. ↑ Michele Di Monte (2004). Hayez, Francesco (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 61. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2014.
  13. ↑ Giuseppe Miano (1969). Boito, Camillo (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 11. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2014.
  14. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Template:Academies of fine art in Italy Template:Portal bar Script error: No such module "Authority control".

Retrieved from "http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Brera_Academy&oldid=4473263"