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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.
In 1818 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts. That same year, he also became a Knight in the Legion of Honor. [8] A year later, he became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. [3] He ended his career as a member of the Institut de France. The Wedding Trip (Le Voyage de Noces), 1825, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
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.
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 prize was created by Charles-Laurent Bordin, a notary in Paris from 1794 to 1820, [1] who bequeathed 12,000 Francs to the Institut de France in his testament dated April 7, 1835, for the foundation of an annual prize to be given to each of the five:
Beaux Arts, Beaux arts, or Beaux-Arts is a French term corresponding to fine arts in English. Capitalized, it may refer to: Académie des Beaux-Arts, a French arts institution (not a school) Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, a Belgian arts school; Beaux-Arts architecture, an architectural style; Beaux Arts Gallery, a gallery of British modern art
Jean-Baptiste Debret (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist dəbʁɛ]; 18 April 1768 – 28 June 1848) was a French painter, who produced many valuable lithographs depicting the people of Brazil. Debret won the second prize at the 1798 Salon des Beaux Arts. [1]
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.