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École Nationale SupĂ©rieure Des Beaux-arts
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1671 - present
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École des Beaux-Arts

school, Paris, France
Also known as: École Nationale SupĂ©rieure des Beaux-Arts, AcadĂ©mie Royale, AcadĂ©mie Royale d’Architecture, French Academy, National School of Fine Arts(Show More)
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École des Beaux-Arts, school of fine arts founded (as the AcadĂ©mie Royale d’Architecture) in Paris in 1671 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of Louis XIV; it merged with the AcadĂ©mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (founded in 1648) in 1793. The school offered instruction in drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, and engraving to students selected by competitive examination; since 1968, architecture is no longer taught there.

Paris Street; Rainy Day and a vision of the modern city
Paris Street; Rainy Day and a vision of the modern cityPainted in 1877, Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; Rainy Day exemplifies Paris's transition from an ancient city to a modern metropolis.
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Beaux-Arts architectural design has been particularly influential. About 1935 the system of the Paris school began to be displaced by an essentially German curriculum stemming from functionalism and machine-inspired theory taught at the Bauhaus.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Meg Matthias.