The Fine Arts Academy of Bologna is one of the
twenty State-run Fine Arts Academies in Italy
belonging to post-secondary artistic education,
distinct from the university system, whose
specificity consists in combining art theory and
practice within a single operative moment that
envisages, during the various training paths,
both workshops and theory courses.
The institution originates from the Clementine
Academy, founded in Bologna in 1710 by Luigi
Ferdinando Marsili and Giampietro Zanotti in
continuity with the cultural legacy of the
Carraccesque Accademia degli Incamminati.
For nearly a century its most eminent
members successively taught Figure and
Architecture: from Cignani, Franceschini,
Creti, Crespi, the Bibiena family, up to Angelo
G. Piò, Vittorio M. Bigari, Vincenzo Martinelli,
Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi. Its insertion into
a national education system came about with
the Napoleonic foundation (1802) of the
Academies of Milan and Bologna, providing
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