The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It houses the Leonardo da Vinci drawing The Vitruvian Man, which can only be exposed for a few weeks
Façade of the gallery on Campo della Carità
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the most famous work of the Gallery, is not displayed for visitors, except on very rare occasions.
Hieronymus Bosch The Hermit Saints, 86 × 120 cm
Jacopo Bassano Adoration of the Shepherds, 9 × 142 cm
Vitruvian Man is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490. Inspired by the Roman architect Vitruvius, it depicts a nude man in two overlapping stan
Gallerie dell'Accademia
…The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It houses the Leonardo da Vinci drawing The Vitruvian Man, which can only be exposed for a few weeks every six years for conservation reasons. It is housed in a building complex comprising the former Scuola…
A Vitruvian Man depiction in the edition of De Architectura by Vitruvius; illustrated edition by Cesare Cesariano, 1521
One of Francesco di Giorgio Martini's three attempts at creating the ideal "Vitruvian Man"
A "Vitruvian Man" prototype by Giacomo Andrea, 1490