An app designed to allow everyone, everywhere, to get to know the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, a prestigious institution that for over four centuries has been committed to enhancing and promoting the arts, painting, sculpture, architecture, and to allow you to admire, through images and descriptions, some of the masterpieces of its important collections which include, among others, works by Raphael, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Guido Reni, Benedetto Luti, Antonio Canova, Francesco Hayez, Giacomo Balla.
By downloading the app on your smartphone or, on site, using tablets for audio-video guides, everyone can easily follow their own path of knowledge through 30 "listening tracks" developed in Italian and English .; the app also offers a route with 11 videos in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and a tour designed specifically for blind and partially sighted people.

With the app it will be possible:
- retrace the history of the Accademia di San Luca, one of the oldest art academies in Europe, which over time also became a model for similar institutions, looking in particular at its most important activity until the unification of Italy, or teaching artists from all over the world; to finally reach the present time, in which the commitment to promote and enhance the arts continues through exhibitions, conferences, cultural initiatives and scholarships dedicated to young artists or scholars of the arts and architecture
- get to know Palazzo Carpegna, the current seat of the Academy located in the center of Rome, near the Trevi Fountain, and admire "up close" the work of Francesco Borromini who worked here between 1643 and 1650, planning a spectacular extension of the building , unfortunately only partially implemented
- deepen the visit to the Gallery, "discovering" some of the most important works of the academic collections, told through readings taken from the most recent historical-critical studies and extraordinary detailed images of the works of art. Following a virtual path, through an interactive map, the user-visitor will be able to move around the rooms of the Gallery, learn about the spirit that has informed the recent museological project of the exhibition spaces and then stop and admire the works.

And now treat yourself to the pleasure of a visit to the National Academy of San Luca and Palazzo Carpegna!

"The Academy for all" is a project of the National Academy of Ssan Luca created with the contribution of the Lazio Region (Law 42/1997, Plan 2019-2020)

The texts of the app are adaptations of the studies present in the main publications on the Academy, in the essays and in the files of the most recent exhibition catalogs where the works of the academic collections have been exhibited, in the hall folders of the Gallery and on the website www.accademiasanluca. eu

The images, where not otherwise indicated, are from the National Academy of San Luca. They reproduce materials from the Historical Archive, the Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Collections, the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints and the Academic Library