Accademia di San Luca

Accademia di San Luca, the painting academy of Rome, named for the Evangelist Saint Luke, reputed to have made a portrait of the Virgin Mary, who was patron of many painters' guilds in the Low Countries and in Italy, was founded in 1593. It has for its modern descendent the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.

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Rome - Saint Luke - Virgin Mary - Low Countries

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Its predecessor, the guild of painters and miniaturists had its statutes and privilegews renewed much earlier, under Pope Sixtus IV December 17, 1478. The statutes directed that each academician was to donate a work of his art in perpetual memory and later, a portrait. Thus the academy in its premises in Palazzo Carpegna, Piazza dell' Accademia di San Luca, has accumulated a unique collection of paintings and sculptures, including about 500 portraits, as well as an outstanding collection of drawings.

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