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The Académie des Beaux-Arts (French pronunciation: [akademi de boz‿aʁ]; lit. ' Academy of Fine Arts ') is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect.
The Prix Lambert (French pronunciation: [pʁi lɑ̃bɛʁ]) was an award given out jointly in France by the Académie française and the Académie des Beaux-Arts.It was created in 1853 and awarded to "men of letters" (or their widows) who had served the public interest.
The Salon's original focus was the display of the work of recent graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts, which was created by Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, in 1648. Exhibition at the Salon de Paris was essential for any artist to achieve success in France for at least the next 200 years.
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Academy of Humanities) – initiated 1663. Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences) – initiated 1666. Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) – created 1816 as the merger of: The Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, initiated 1648);
École des Beaux-Arts (French for 'School of Fine Arts'; pronounced [ekɔl de boz‿aʁ]) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth ...
Alain-Charles Perrot (French pronunciation: [alɛ̃ ʃaʁl pɛʁo]; born 17 September 1945) is a French architect. He is the president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. [1] He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour on 11 April 2001. [2] He was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on 16 January 2014.
The entrance of the Beaux-Arts de Paris with a bust of Nicolas Poussin Plan of the site. The Beaux-Arts de Paris (French pronunciation: [boz‿aʁ də pari]), formally the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (French pronunciation: [ekɔl nɑsjɔnal sypeʁjœʁ de boz‿aʁ]), is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training.
Henri-Jean Guillaume "Henri" Martin (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒɑ̃ ɡijom maʁtɛ̃]; 5 August 1860 – 12 November 1943) was a French painter.Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1917, he has been described as a prolific master whose work has touches of melancholy, dreaminess and mystery.