ABSTRACT
The Accademia di Pittura, Scultura e Architettura of Mantua was established as a modern academy under the auspices of the Austrian government in 1752, in order to foster the cultural development and artistic renaissance of the city. Its teaching methods proved to be strongly rooted in Mantua’s built heritage, which professors and students could experience and draw to acquire the fundamental principles of architecture and art. The Accademia performs a work of interpretations on these monuments, especially Giulio Romano’s Mannerism, which demonstrates a modern approach to the lessons of the past and a new lens through which to view the history of the city, thereby redefining the contemporaneous civic identity of Mantua.
