[2] The academy was at first housed in a room on the upper floor of the Fonteghetto della Farina [it], a flour warehouse and market on the Grand Canal, close to Piazza San Marco.

The space was insufficient, and students and teachers had to contend with the noise and dust of the market, which also occupied the first floor of the building.

The name was changed from Veneta Academia di Pittura, Scultura e Architettura to Accademia Reale di Belle Arti, "royal academy of fine arts", and the academy was moved to premises in the Palladian complex of the Scuola della Carità.

[1][4] In 1879, the Accademia di Belle Arti and the Gallerie dell'Accademia became administratively separate, but continued to share the same buildings until 2004, when the art school moved to the present site, the former Ospedale degli Incurabili.

508 dated 21 December 1999,[5] and falls under the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education and research.