Accademia

British

/ akkaˈdɛmja /

noun

Full name: Galleria dell' Accademia. an art gallery in Venice housing a collection of paintings by Venetian masters from the 13th to 18th centuries

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He has worked since 2007 with set designer Paolo Fantin, his former student at Venice’s Accademia di Belle Arti.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

“It’s very interesting, and now it’s surely necessary to carry out further investigations,” said Cecilie Hollberg, the director of the Accademia Gallery in Florence.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

"Legal language is not the right place for minoritarian innovative experimentations," the Accademia said in a six-page opinion that Reuters reviewed on Monday, after the Corriere della Sera newspaper first reported on it.

From Reuters • Mar. 20, 2023

The prize is awarded, both nationally and internationally, once every five years in each field by Italy's Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

From BBC • Jul. 3, 2022

The frontispiece of the English translation of the experiments of the Accademia del Cimento: Nature is shown turning her back on Aristotle and being introduced by the Accademia to the Royal Society.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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