There are
more than 1,000 paintings, about 300 sculptures, about 1500 drawings and a
collection of prints and medals, some shown to the public, most in storage
Room
of Academic Education
Selection
of the numerous works of art by famous and not so famous artists who were
annually presented and awarded at the closing ceremony of the public academic
competitions at the Capitoline Hill in the eighteenth and nineteenth century
Collection
of Plaster Casts
Opened in
2008
Five casts
including bas-relief “Socrates defends Alcibiades at the Battle of Potidea” and
“Portrait of Clement XIII Rezzonico (1758/69)” 1784/86 by Antonio
Canova (1757/1822)
Seven casts
including “Ganymede and the Eagle” 1817 by Bertel
Thorvaldsen (1770/1844)
Two casts
by Pietro Tenerani (1789/1869)
Also works
by the Dutchman Mathieu Kessels (1784/1836), the
Welsh pupil of Canova John Gibson (1790/1866),
the German Emil Wolff (1802/79), Attilio Selva (1888/1970), Bernardo
Tacca (1780/1826) and Giulio Tadolini
(1849/1918)
Cabinet
of Drawings
Three sets
of tables on the study of perspective, anatomy, and the system of architectural
orders, all dating back to the second half of the seventeenth century
Group of
architectural drawings, spectacular in terms of design but also for the techniques
of graphic representation, which documents the practice of donating samples to
the institution, by statute, by the newly elected academic
Confidential
Cabinet
Paintings
from the Pinacoteca
Capitolina (Capitoline Art Gallery) whose subjects in 1823 were
judged 'not decent for being seen publicly' and then removed from the rooms, with
the exception of the great Bacchus and Ariadne by Guido Reni, who was exhibited
until 1841 and it is now located along the main staircase
These “scandalous”
paintings were placed temporarily in a 'confidential cabinet' before being
donated, between 1836 and 1845, to the Accademia di S. Luca for educational
purposes
Collection
of Works by Contemporary Academic Masters
The
collections include the works of young artists deemed worthy of the prize
competitions organized over the centuries by the Accademia di S. Luca
Mascarino
Fund
253
architectural drawings, 150 of which related to Roman buildings, from the
workshop of Ottaviano Nonni aka Ottaviano Mascherino
(1524/1606), Prince of the Academy in 1604
Historical
Archive and Sarti Library
Over 42,000
books donated to the City of Rome in 1877 by the favorite architect of the
Torlonia family Antonio Sarti (1797/1880),
important for the documentation of architecture and art history
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