While the Company was a kind of corporation which every working artist in Tuscany could join, the Academy comprised only the most eminent artistic personalities of Cosimo's court, and had the task of supervising the whole artistic production of the Medicean state.
Ühinguga pidid liituma kõik Toscana tegevkunstnikud, akadeemia liikmeteks olid vaid Cosimo õukonna kõige väljapaistvamad kunstiinimesed, kelle ülesandeks oli valvata kogu "kunstitoodangu" järele Medicite valduses.