The gallery of the Academy of Venice was established in 1807, and like the Museum of the Louvre, established by a decree of 1792, and like the National Gallery in London of 1824, a resource for professional artists with some access for the general public. During the Napoleonic occupation pictures were removed from churches, including Titian 's Assumption from the Frari church, and were displayed there.
The Venice Academy of Fine Arts was formally established in 1756. In Florence the Accademia del Disegno had been founded by Vasari under the patronage of Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, and an Academy of Fine Arts was established in 1784. The Royal Academy in England was opened in 1769.
Ruskin 's 1877 Guide to the Principal Pictures in Academy of Fine Arts at Venice is at Works, 24.149 and following.