iThe Gallerie dell'Accademia hold the finest collection of Venetian painting from the 14th to the 18th century, from Paolo Veneziano and Giovanni Bellini to Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Carpaccio, Canaletto and Tiepolo. The museum occupies the former Scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Carità, its church and the Lateran Canons' monastery at the foot of the Accademia Bridge in Dorsoduro. Highlights include Giorgione's Tempest, Titian's final Pietà, Veronese's vast Feast in the House of Levi and Carpaccio's St Ursula cycle, while the drawings cabinet keeps Leonardo's Vitruvian Man.

Room XXI holds Carpaccio's nine-canvas cycle (1490-95) of the Breton princess Ursula, a vivid panorama of Venetian ceremony, ships and city life.

Veronese's vast 1573 banquet in Room X, painted as a Last Supper and retitled after the Inquisition objected to its dwarves, dogs and drunken Germans.

Giorgione's enigmatic c.1504 canvas in Room VIII: a soldier and a nursing mother in a landscape split by lightning, still one of art's great riddles.
Campo della Carità, Dorsoduro 1050, 30123 Venezia, Italy
Nearest station: Accademia (vaporetto lines 1, 2, N)
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| Tue | 09:00–19:00 |
| Wed | 09:00–19:00 |
| Thu | 09:00–19:00 |
| Fri | 09:00–19:00 |
| Sat | 09:00–19:00 |
| Sun | 09:00–19:00 |
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EU citizens 18-25: EUR 2; under 18 free; groups of 10-25 EUR 17; free on the first Sunday of each month and selected national holidays.
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