Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze
	The Accademia di Belle Arti seen from Piazza San Marco
Type	Academy of fine arts
Established	1563; 461 years ago; 1784 (combination)
President	Carlo Sisi
Director	Claudio Rocca
Students	more than 1200
Location	Florence, Tuscany, Italy; 43°46′39″N 11°15′33″E / 43.7775°N 11.2592°E
Website	accademia.firenze.it

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (lit. 'academy of fine arts of Florence') is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy.

It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini and other significant artists have been associated with it.

Like other state art academies in Italy, it became an autonomous degree-awarding institution under law no. 508 dated 21 December 1999,^[1] and falls under the administration of the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research.^[2]

The adjacent (but unaffiliated) Galleria dell'Accademia houses the original David by Michelangelo.

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