Since 1974 it has housed the Accademia Fiorentina delle Arti del Disegno, an academy of the arts.

The Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai was built in the fourteenth century on the site of houses of the Macci family.

Restoration was begun in the early 1970s, and from 1974 the building, now the property of the State, became the home of the Accademia Fiorentina delle Arti del Disegno.

Above them are the arms of the Arte dei Beccai, a long-horned billy-goat, the Italian: becco from which the name of the guild derives; this work has been attributed to Donatello.

Lower on the façade are other crests, the giglio or iris of Florence and the three interlocking wreaths of the Accademia Fiorentina delle Arti del Disegno.