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Biblioteca Accademia Nazionale di San Luca

Typology: Specialized

Address

Address: Piazza dell'Accademia di San Luca, 77
Zone: Rione Trevi (Quirinale-Tritone-Barberini) (Roma centro)

Contacts

Telephone: 06 6791155 - 06 6798850

Opening times

For opening times and visiting condition, please check the contacts.
By appointment only: biblioteca@accademiasanluca.it

Access: Open to all.
Patrimony: Fond of ancient books, Historical Archive.

Capacity

Reading Seats: 50

Description

In the historic seat of Palazzo Carpegna, the National Academy of San Luca houses two ancient and prestigious art libraries, the Academic Library and the Roman Sarti Municipal Library, different in history and administrative nature but today substantially connected in a single service that offers to scholars and students a patrimony of over 50,000 volumes, including works from the past and current events in the field of painting, sculpture and architecture, accompanied by periodic publications relating to Fine Arts.
In particular, the ancient bibliographic collections allow specialized research on printed sources, period originals and manuscripts, a natural complement to the documentation preserved in the Accademia's Historical Archives. With regard to the modern, critical studies on the sister arts (painting, sculpture, architecture) in Italy and abroad prevail, and the intellectual and artistic publications of today's academics, in line with the nature of the institution, which has always been a school and training activity laboratory.

The Academic Library was born and developed with the Academy itself, so much so that already in the Statutes of 1607, with the approval of Monsignor Fedeli Vice-Regent, the commitment of the academic body is expressly requested for the increase of the book collection
As a result of these donations, a documentary heritage of great artistic and scientific value has been created over time, which is still growing through donations and purchases. Among the valuable historical documents, the complete series of engravings by G.B. Piranesi donated personally by the artist in 1761 upon his appointment as a member of the Academy.
Also noteworthy are the four books On the symmetry of human bodies by A. Dürer, in a precious folio edition of 1591 printed in Venice.
Today the Academic Library is open to contemporaneity and to the most recent artistic expressions while maintaining the connection with the study tradition of the Academy for the classical arts. Its heritage continues to benefit from the bequests of academics who, even in recent times, have paid homage to their personal and valuable book collections, testimony to the public and private commitment carried out over the course of their careers.
This is the case of the fund titled to Palma Bucarelli, art historian and prominent figure in the years of the second italian post-war, and again of the funds of the architects and professors Giancarlo De Carlo, Giorgio Ciucci, Carlo Aymonino, and of the artist and scholar Angelo Zanelli.

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Last checked: 2023-02-22 11:25