Librarie

The National Academy of San Luca hosts two ancient and prestigious art libraries, the Academic Library and the Roman Municipal Library Sarti. The Academic Library was born and developed with the Academy itself, so much so that already in the Statutes of 1607 the commitment of the academic body is explicitly required for the increase of the book collection. The Roman Sarti Library was inaugurated on 21 April 1881 by the architect Antonio Sarti da Budrio, President of the Academy from 1860 to 1863, who wished to offer his citizens his own collection of books, making it the property of the Municipality of Rome and entrusting perpetual protection at the same Academy of San Luca.