Description
The Pinacoteca dell'Accademia Albertina is the gallery of Turin's historic art school, on Via Accademia Albertina in the city center: paintings from the 15th to the 20th century, Piedmontese, Italian and Flemish, gathered so that students could learn from the great masters.
The highlight is the cartoons by Gaudenzio Ferrari and his school, some sixty 16th-century preparatory drawings that show how a Renaissance workshop in Piedmont worked. Next to them is an altarpiece by Filippo Lippi with two saints who were Doctors of the Church.
Then come the Piedmontese panels by Defendente Ferrari and Martino Spanzotti, the Flemish and Dutch paintings, such as Maarten van Heemskerck's Entombment, and works by the Academy's masters and students.
Many of the paintings arrived in 1828, a gift from Monsignor Mossi di Morano. The cartoons were donated in 1832 by Charles Albert, who the following year refounded the Academy in the former convent of San Francesco da Paola.
The highlight is the cartoons by Gaudenzio Ferrari and his school, some sixty 16th-century preparatory drawings that show how a Renaissance workshop in Piedmont worked. Next to them is an altarpiece by Filippo Lippi with two saints who were Doctors of the Church.
Then come the Piedmontese panels by Defendente Ferrari and Martino Spanzotti, the Flemish and Dutch paintings, such as Maarten van Heemskerck's Entombment, and works by the Academy's masters and students.
Many of the paintings arrived in 1828, a gift from Monsignor Mossi di Morano. The cartoons were donated in 1832 by Charles Albert, who the following year refounded the Academy in the former convent of San Francesco da Paola.