After visiting Rome in the mid of XVIII century the Venetian nobleman Filippo Farsetti decided to establish in Venice a Drawing Academy. For this purpose, he commissioned the duplicates of the most important ancient and modern works of art so that young artists could train copying them. First, Farsetti exhibited his collection of plaster copies in the largest rooms of his palace on the Grand Ca-nal; later, he decided to transform his mansion into a real Drawing Academy. Farsetti asked the most famous architect of his time, Charles Louis Clérisseau, to design a project for the transformation of his palace; it, however, will never be realized.Considering the noble didactic purpose of Farsetti and the artistic value of Clérisseau, we performed a virtual reconstruction that attempts to give a digital life to the Drawing Academy. In particular, the 3D model, the virtual images and movies are going to be used to promote and disseminate the artistic and architectural heritage of Venice.
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