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By the middle of the century, the number of private academies decreased as academies gradually came under government control, sponsorships and patronage. The first private academy to become "official" and to this day the most prestigious of governmental academies is the Académie Française ("French Academy"), founded in 1634 by Cardinal Richelieu.
In 1866, a group of 35 artists founded the Chicago Academy of Design in a studio on Dearborn Street, with the intent to run a free school with its own art gallery. The organization was modeled after European art academies, such as the Royal Academy, with Academicians and Associate Academicians. The academy's charter was granted in March 1867.
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
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 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois.Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and school, SAIC has been accredited since 1936 by the Higher Learning Commission and by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1944 ...
The Art Institute of Chicago opened as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts on May 24, 1879, and changed to its current name on December 23, 1882. [5] It was originally established as both a school and museum, and stood on the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street, [6] where it rented space. [7]
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John French Sloan (1871–1951), 1 painting : Artic; John Smybert (1688–1751), 2 paintings : Artic; ... Art Institute of Chicago; Netherlands Institute for Art History