Accademia di Belle Arti

( Originally Published 1955 )

The Academy of Fine Arts is one of the most important general repositories of Venetian painting of the Renaissance. It contains, among many other works of art, Titian's Assumption, Giorgione's Gypsy and the Soldier, Tintoretto's St. Mark Rescuing a Slave, Titian's Presentation in the Temple and the same artist's last and unfinished picture, the Pieta of 1576.