Meeting with the guide in front of the entrance to the Hotel Danieli.
The link that exists between the Galleries of the Accademia and the city of Venice is strong. The Galleries in fact contain many works of art which came from churches and schools and from public offices of authority. A visit to the city is therefore a necessary extension to that of the art collections, or vice versa, for only in this way can the visitor fully understand how and why the painters adopted certain solutions based on the destination of a painting and its meaning. In some cases the works exhibited in the Galleries are the only evidence which remains from churches demolished during Napoleon's dominion, and some of the most famous paintings from illustrious private Venetian collections arrived at the museum thanks to bequests and donations. Examples of these are Piero della Francesca's Saint Jerome, many Virgin and Child paintings by Giovanni Bellini and the Venetian sketches by Pietro Longhi.
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