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The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''
grande école
A ''grande école'' () is a specialised university that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. The grandes écoles offer teaching, research and professional training in s ...
'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of
Fine Arts
In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwor ...
in France. The
art school
An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-second ...
, which is part of the
Paris Sciences et Lettres University
Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL University or simply PSL) is a public research university based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a collegiate university with 11 consti ...
, is located on two sites:
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés () is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the no ...
in Paris, and
Saint-Ouen.
The Parisian institution is made up of a complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the
rue Bonaparte. This is in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just across the Seine from the
Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the '' Venus de Milo''. A central ...
museum. The school was founded in 1648 by
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of ...
as the famed French academy ''
Académie de peinture et de sculpture
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...
''. In 1793, at the height of the
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are conside ...
, the institutes were suppressed. However, in 1817, following the
Bourbon Restoration Bourbon Restoration may refer to:
France under the House of Bourbon:
* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
* Abs ...
, it was revived under a changed name after merging with the
Académie d'architecture
The Académie d'Architecture () is a French learned society whose purpose is the recognition of architectural quality. Founded in 1840 as the Société Centrale des Architectes (; en, "Central Society of Architects"), the society was renamed Ac ...
. Held under the King's tutelage until 1863, an imperial decree on November 13, 1863 named the school's director, who serves for a five-year term. Long supervised by the Ministry of Public Instruction, the École des Beaux-Arts is now a public establishment under the Ministry of Culture.
History
The Beaux-Arts de Paris is the original of a series of
Écoles des beaux-arts in French regional centers. Since its founding in 1648, the
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abo ...
has had a school, France's
elite
In political and sociological theory, the elite (french: élite, from la, eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. ...
institution of instruction in the arts. Its program was structured around a series of anonymous competitions that culminated in the ''grand prix de l'Académie Royale'', more familiar as the
Grand Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...
, for its winner was awarded a bourse and a place at the
French Academy in Rome
The French Academy in Rome (french: Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.
History
The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in ...
. During his stay in Rome, a ''pensionnaire'' was expected to send regular ''envois'' of his developing work back to Paris. Contestants for the ''Prix'' were assigned a theme from the literature of
classical antiquity
Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD centred on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ...
; their individual identities were kept secret to avoid any scandal of favoritism.
With his final admission into the Académie, the new member had to present his fellow academicians a ''morceau de réception'', a painting or sculpture that demonstrated his learning, intelligence, and proficiency in his art.
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away f ...
's ''
Andromache Mourning Hector
''Andromache Mourning Hector'' is a 1783 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. The painting depicts an image from Homer's '' Iliad'', showing Andromache, comforted by her son, Astyanax, mourning over her ...
'' was his reception offering in 1783; today it is in the collections of the
Louvre Museum
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...
.
In 1793, during the
French Revolution
The French Revolution ( ) was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are conside ...
, the Académie Royale and the grand prix de l'Académie Royale were abolished, but only a few years later, in 1797, the Prix de Rome was re-established. Each year throughout the nineteenth century, the winner of the Prix de Rome was granted five years of study at the
Villa Medici
The Villa Medici () is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, ...
, after which the painter or sculptor could fully expect to embark on a successful official career.
The program resulted in the accumulation of some great collections at the Académie, one of the finest collections of French drawings, many of them sent as ''envoies'' from Rome, as well as the paintings and sculptures, usually the winners, of the competitions, or ''
salon
Salon may refer to:
Common meanings
* Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments
* French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home
* Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment
Arts and entertainment
* Salon ( ...
s''. Lesser competitions, known as the ''petits concours'', took themes like history composition (which resulted in many sketches illustrating instructive moments from
antiquity
Antiquity or Antiquities may refer to:
Historical objects or periods Artifacts
*Antiquities, objects or artifacts surviving from ancient cultures
Eras
Any period before the European Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries) but still within the histo ...
), expressions of the emotions, and full and half-figure painting.
In its role as a teaching institution, the École assembled a large collection of Italian and French
etching
Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...
s and
engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an in ...
s, dating from the 16th through the 18th century. Such prints published the composition of paintings to a wide audience. The print collection was first made available to students outside the Académie in 1864.
Today, studies include: painting, installation, graphic arts, photography, sculpture, digital media and video. Beaux-Arts de Paris provides the highest level of training in contemporary art production. Throughout history, many world-renowned artists have either taught or studied at this institution. The faculty is made up of recognized international artists. Theoretical courses permitting diverse approaches to the history of the arts complement studio work, which is supported by technical training and access to technical bases. The media center provides students with rich documentation on art, and organizes conferences, seminars, and debates throughout the year. The School buildings have architectural interest and house prestigious historical collections and an extensive fine arts library. The school publishes a dozen texts per year on different collections, and holds exhibitions ranging from the school's excellent collection of old-master drawings to the most up to date contemporary works, in the Quai Malaquais space and the Chapel throughout the year.
Collections
The school owns circa 450,000 items divided between artworks and historical books, making it one of the largest public art collections in France. The collection encompasses many types of artistic productions, from painting and sculpture to etching, furniture or decorated books and from all the periods of art history. Many pieces of the collection are artworks created by students of the School throughout its history but former students and scholars also contributed to enlarge the holdings with many gifts and donations to the institution. The collection consists in approximatively 2,000 paintings (including pictures by
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for ...
,
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh ...
,
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (; 18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud (), was a Catalan-French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility.
Biography
Rigaud ...
,
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732
(birth/baptism certificate)
– 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific ...
,
Hubert Robert
Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.Jean de Cayeux. ...
and
Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the a ...
), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15,000 medals, 3,700 sculptures, 20,000 drawings including works by
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as '' The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''T ...
,
Primaticcio
Francesco Primaticcio (April 30, 1504 – 1570) was an Italian Mannerist painter, architect and sculptor who spent most of his career in France.
Biography
Born in Bologna, he trained under Giulio Romano in Mantua and became a pupil of ...
,
Jacques Bellange
Jacques Bellange (c. 1575–1616) was an artist and printmaker from the Duchy of Lorraine (then independent but now part of France) whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today. They are among the most striking Nor ...
,
Michelangelo
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was ins ...
,
Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of ...
, Nicolas Poussin,
Claude Gellée
Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in It ...
,
Dürer,
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally cons ...
,
Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( , ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the a ...
,
François Boucher
François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...
or
Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky (born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction.
Life
Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek. In 1944 he ...
, 45,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 etchings and engravings, 70,000 photographs (mainly form the period 1850–1914), 65,000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century (3,500 for the 15th and 16th centuries), and 1,000 handwritten pieces of archive (letters, inventories, notes...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.
Campus
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The physical setting of the school stands on about two hectares in the
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés () is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the no ...
section of Paris. The main entrance at 14 Rue Bonaparte is flanked by colossal carved heads of
Pierre Paul Puget
Pierre Paul Puget (16 October 1620 – 2 December 1694) was a French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the S ...
and
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for ...
(done in 1838 by Michel-Louis Victor Mercier).
Before 1816, Beaux-Arts students were taught elsewhere. This land had been the convent of the Petits Augustins, then the site of
Alexandre Lenoir's collection of architectural fragments from across France, the
Musée des Monuments français (1795–1816), assembled here as a result of the destruction of churches and noble chateaux during the revolution.
In 1830, architect
Félix Duban
Jacques Félix Duban () (14 October 1798, Paris – 8 October 1870, Bordeaux) was a French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste.
Life and career
Duban won the Prix de Rome in 1823, the most prestigious aw ...
, a former student and winner of the
Grand Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...
, began a transformation of the site by demolishing a few existing houses, moving back the convent's cloister on the right to produce a symmetrical courtyard, and designing the largest central building, the Palais des Études. Duban simply incorporated many of Lenoir's historical fragments, notably the portal of the 1548
Château d'Anet
The Château d'Anet is a château near Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II of France. It was built on the former château at the ...
, and in the courtyard a facade from the
Château de Gaillon
The Château de Gaillon is a French Renaissance castle located in Gaillon, Normandy region of France.
History
The somewhat battered and denuded Château de Gaillon, begun in 1502 on ancient foundations was the summer archiepiscopal residence of ...
, since removed and returned to its original site in 1977.
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In other ways Duban meant the entire complex as an open-air encyclopedia for artists and architects. The Palais des Études building features elaborate frescoes, the stairwells demonstrate various wall finishes, and the courtyard (glassed over by Duban in 1863) once held classical statuary and full-size copies of the columns of the
Parthenon
The Parthenon (; grc, Παρθενών, , ; ell, Παρθενώνας, , ) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC. Its decorative sculptures are considere ...
for study.
The core of the complex is a semi-circular award theater within the Palais, the Hémicycle d'Honneur, where the prizes were awarded. Duban commissioned
Paul Delaroche to produce a great mural, 27 metres long, to represent seventy-five great artists of all ages, in conversation, assembled in groups. In the middle are three thrones occupied by the creators of the Parthenon: sculptor
Phidias, architect
Ictinus
Ictinus (; el, Ἰκτῖνος, ''Iktinos'') was an architect active in the mid 5th century BC. Ancient sources identify Ictinus and Callicrates as co-architects of the Parthenon. He co-wrote a book on the project – which is now lost – in col ...
, and painter
Apelles
Apelles of Kos (; grc-gre, Ἀπελλῆς; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed ('' Naturalis Historia'' 35.36.79–97 and ''passim' ...
, symbolizing the unity of these arts. The mural took Delaroche three and a half years to complete, and it still stands as a powerful expression of the Beaux-Arts collaborative ideal.
Duban continued to expand and improve the complex for decades. Other major buildings include the 1820 Bâtiment des Loges, the modified cloister now called the Cour des Mûriers, the 1862 Bâtiment des Expositions which extended the campus to the Quai Malaquias, the
Hôtel de Chimay built circa 1750 and acquired by the school in 1884, and a block of studios constructed circa 1945 in concrete by
Auguste Perret
Auguste Perret (12 February 1874 – 25 February 1954) was a French architect and a pioneer of the architectural use of reinforced concrete. His major works include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the first Art Deco building in Paris; the ...
.
Palais des Études
File:Palais des etudes ensba paris 003.jpg, The Palais des Études in summer
File:Palais des etudes ensba paris 002.jpg, The Palais des Études in winter
File:La Cour du Palais des études de l’École des beaux-arts.jpg, Palais des Études, Cour vitrée
File:Palais des etudes ensba paris 004.jpg, Between left and right gallery
File:Treppe ensba paris 03.jpg, The stairway in the Palais des Études
File:Collections consultation room ENSBA Paris.jpg, The archives in the Palais des Études
File:Bibliotheque ensba paris 03.jpg, The library in the Palais des Études
Chapel
File:Kapelle ensba paris 02.jpg, Exterior view of the chapel of the Beaux-Arts
File:Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts chapelle.JPG, Interior view of the chapel of the Beaux-Arts
File:Kapelle ensba paris.jpg, The chapel of the Beaux-Arts, detail
File:Kapelle ensba paris 03.jpg, The chapel of the Beaux-Arts, detail
Academic staff
Directors
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Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, 1864–1878
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Paul Dubois, 1878
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François Wehrlin
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Yves Michaud, 1989–1997
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Alfred Pacquement
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Nicolas Untersteller
Nicolas Untersteller (1900–1967) was a French painter.
Early life
He was born in Stiring-Wendel, Lorraine, during the first German annexation. After studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg from 1921 to 1923, he joined the Ec ...
1948
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Jean-Didier Wolframm
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Henry-Claude Cousseau
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Nicolas Bourriaud
Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a curator and art critic, who has curated a great number of exhibitions and biennials all over the world.
With Jérôme Sans, Bourriaud cofounded the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where he served as codirector from ...
, 2011–2015
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Jean-Marc Bustamante, 2015–2019
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Jean de Loisy, 2019–2021
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Alexia Fabre, 2022-
Notable instructors
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Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audi ...
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Pierre Alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky (born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction.
Life
Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek. In 1944 he ...
*
Louis-Jules André
Louis-Jules André (24 June 1819 – 30 January 1890) was a French academic architect and the head of an important ''atelier'' at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography
Born in Paris, André attended the École des Beaux-Arts and took the Prix ...
*
Maurice Benayoun
Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957) is a French new-media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong.
His work employs various media, including video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, th ...
*
François Boisrond
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Christian Boltanski
Christian Liberté Boltanski (6 September 1944 – 14 July 2021) was a French sculptor, photographer, painter, and film maker. He is best known for his photography installations and contemporary French Conceptual art, conceptual style.
Early li ...
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Duchenne de Boulogne
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (September 17, 1806 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – September 15, 1875 in Paris) was a French neurologist who revived Galvani's research and greatly advanced the science of electrophysiology. The era of mo ...
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Jean-Marc Bustamante
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Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to ''Diccionario Enciclopedi ...
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Pierre Carron
Pierre Carron (16 December 1932 – 19 March 2022) was a French sculptor and painter, especially known for his portrayals of children and natural landscapes.
Biography
Born in Fécamp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the Écol ...
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Béatrice Casadesus
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Jean-François Chevrier
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César
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Nina Childress
Nina Childress (born Christine Childress, 1961) is a French-American visual artist, based in Paris, France.
Life and work
Born in Pasadena, California, United States, she studied in Paris at the Ecole National Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs ( EN ...
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Claude Closky
Claude Closky (born 22 May 1963) is a French Contemporary Artist who lives and works in Paris, France.
Reception
Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005) awarded by the ADIAF.
Dike Blair wrot ...
*
Richard Deacon
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Olivier Debré
Olivier Debré (14 April 1920 – 1 June 1999) was a French abstract painter.
Biography
It was following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figura ...
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Louis Girault
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Julien Guadet
Julien Guadet (1834–1908) was a French architect, theoretician and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
References
1834 births
1908 deaths
Architectural theoreticians
19th-century French architects
Officiers of the Légion ...
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Fabrice Hybert
Fabrice Hybert, also known by the pseudonym Fabrice Hyber, is a French plastic artist born on 12 July 1961 in Luçon (Vendée). At 56, he was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts on April 25, 2018.
Attached to nature, economics, commerce and scie ...
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Victor Laloux
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Jean-Paul Laurens
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Barbara Leisgen
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Charles Le Brun
Charles Le Brun (baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of ...
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Henri Lehmann Henri Lehmann (; 14 April 1814 – 30 March 1882) was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist.
Life
Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann ...
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Michel Marot
Michel Marot (29 January 1926 – 24 August 2021) was a French architect.
Biography
In 1945, Marot was admitted to the Beaux-Arts de Paris and graduated in 1950. After his degree, he studied at Harvard University. He earned the Prix de Rome to ...
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Antonin Mercié
Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris), was a French sculptor, medallist and painter.
Biography
Mercié entered the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and Fra ...
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Annette Messager
Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943) is a French visual artist. In 2005 she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French Pavilion. In 2016, she won the prestigious Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award. ...
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Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.'' ...
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Jean-Louis Pascal
Jean-Louis Pascal (4 June 1837 – 17 May 1920) was an academic French architect.
Life
Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel. He won the Grand Pri ...
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Auguste Perret
Auguste Perret (12 February 1874 – 25 February 1954) was a French architect and a pioneer of the architectural use of reinforced concrete. His major works include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the first Art Deco building in Paris; the ...
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Emmanuel Pontremoli
Emmanuel Pontremoli (13 January 1865 – 25 July 1956) was a French architect and archaeologist.
Biography
Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architect ...
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Abraham Pincas
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Paul Richer
Paul Marie Louis Pierre Richer (17 January 1849 – 17 December 1933) was a French anatomist, physiologist, sculptor, medallist, and anatomical artist who was a native of Chartres. He was a professor of artistic anatomy at the École nationale s ...
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Charles-Caïus Renoux
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Jean-Joseph Sue
Prof Jean-Joseph Sue FRS FRSE (20 April 1710 – 15 December 1792) was a French surgeon and anatomist.
Life
He was born at La Colle-sur-Loup on 20 April 1710 the son of Pierre Jean Sue (d.1714) and his wife, Marguerite Bellisime (d.1748).
Jean- ...
, father
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Jean-Joseph Sue
Prof Jean-Joseph Sue FRS FRSE (20 April 1710 – 15 December 1792) was a French surgeon and anatomist.
Life
He was born at La Colle-sur-Loup on 20 April 1710 the son of Pierre Jean Sue (d.1714) and his wife, Marguerite Bellisime (d.1748).
Jean- ...
, son
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Tadashi Kawamata
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Biography
Born in Mikasa, Hokkaido, Mikasa City on Hokkaido, Kawamata graduated from ...
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Tatiana Trouvé
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Jean-Luc Vilmouth
Notable alumni
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Agegnehu Engida Agegnehu Engida (1905 in Mahdere Maryam – 1950), was an Ethiopian modern painter. He blended abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, but maintained a style that was "distinctively Ethiopian."
Biography
As part of Emperor Haile Selassie's ed ...
, painter
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Nadir Afonso
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Paul Ahyi, painter, sculptor, designer of the
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Theo Akkermann
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Life
Akkermann and his baby sister ...
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Wahbi al-Hariri
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, sculpture, painting, and architecture
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Rodolfo Amoedo
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Biography
His interest in art and decoration began when a family friend (who was a lyricist) invited him to do work on the now defunct Teatro Sã ...
, painting
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Beatrice Valentine Amrhein
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Biography
Amrhein was trained as a painter at l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at École nationale des beaux arts of N ...
, painting
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Ouanes Amor
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He was born in Tunisia and emigrated to France at the age of 17. In 1960, became a student of Roger Chastel, and in 1970, he became an assistant to Gustave Singier. In 1980, Am ...
, painting
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Émile André
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Life a ...
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Ximena Armas, painting
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Yolande Ardissone, painting
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Léon Azéma, architecture
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Théodore Ballu
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Winning the Prix de Rome
In 1840, Théodore Ball ...
, architecture
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Lucien Georges Bazor, sculpture
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Ahmed Benyahia, painting, sculpture, film
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Jean-Francois Bocle, painter
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Ernest Boiceau, drawing, painting and architecture
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Maurice Boitel
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Artistic life
Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris,The School of Paris (1945–1965) by Lydia Harambourg. ...
, painting
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Michel Bouvet
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Biography
Bouvet studied and graduated at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSB-A).
His des ...
, designer & poster artist
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Antoine Bourdelle
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Bernard Buffet
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He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his caree ...
, painting
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Antoine Camilleri, painting
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Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe. sociologist
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Olivia Chaumont
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Education
Chaumont graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1978. She completed training as an architect at the Institut d'urbanisme ...
, architect and transgender activist
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Eugène Chigot, painting
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Georgette Cottin-Euziol, French Algerian architect
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Aimé-Jules Dalou, sculpture
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Henri-Camille Danger
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Early life and education
Henri-Camille was the son of Jules Félix ...
, painting
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Mario Pani Darqui, architecture
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Jacques-Louis David
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Gabriel Davioud, architecture
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Olivier Debré
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Biography
It was following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figura ...
, painting
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Edgar Degas
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Degas also produced bronze sculptures, Printmaking, prints ...
, painting
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Eugène Delacroix
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, painting
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Marie-Antoinette Demagnez
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, sculpture
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Jean Desbois
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He was a member of the French Society of Architects (''Société des A ...
, architecture
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Louis Deschamps
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Biography
He was born on 25 May 1846 from Sebastien Deschamps and Hanriette Chames and gifted with natural artistic talent ...
, painting
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Paul Devautour
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Life and career
In collaboration with Yoon Ja Choi he created in 1985 the Collection Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour. They conceived works and exhibitions until 2004 under ...
, installation, multi-media
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Jean Dries
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, painting
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Félix Duban
Jacques Félix Duban () (14 October 1798, Paris – 8 October 1870, Bordeaux) was a French architect, the contemporary of Jacques Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste.
Life and career
Duban won the Prix de Rome in 1823, the most prestigious aw ...
, architecture
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Dominique Duplantier
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, drawing, painting and architecture
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Henri Evenepoel
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Life and career
Evenepoel first studied art in Brussels at the Académie Royale ...
, painting
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Fang Ganmin, painting, sculpture
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Anne Flournoy, filmmaker
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (; 5 April 1732
(birth/baptism certificate)
– 22 August 1806) was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific ...
, painting
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Valentino Garavani, fashion designer
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Charles Garnier, architecture
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Tony Garnier, architecture
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Eliahu Gat, painting
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David Gerstein
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, painting, sculpture
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Théodore Géricault
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, painting
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Hubert de Givenchy
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, fashion designer
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Louis Girault, architecture
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Jacques Gréber
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, landscape architect
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Aaron Goodelman, sculptor
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Liliana Gramberg
Liliana Gramberg (July 8, 1921 – March 21, 1996) was an Italian-born American printmaker and painter.
Life and career
Gramberg was born Treviso, Italy in July 1921. She attended the University of Rome, before moving to California in 1950 on ...
, printmaker and painter
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Michael Gross, painter and sculptor
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Julien Guadet
Julien Guadet (1834–1908) was a French architect, theoretician and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
References
1834 births
1908 deaths
Architectural theoreticians
19th-century French architects
Officiers of the Légion ...
, architecture
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Yves Hernot, Painting and Surrealistic photos
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Emil Hünten
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Biography
Born in Paris on 19 January 1827, the son of the composer, Franz Hünten, he studied art under Hippolyte ...
, painter
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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, painting
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Charles Isabelle, architecture
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Robert Jay Wolff, painting, sculpture
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Amédée Joullin
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Biography
He was born in San Francisco to French ...
, painting
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Bernadette Kanter
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Biography
In 1974, after studying at the College of artistic careers of Paris (ICART), at the École nationale supér ...
, sculptor
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Majida Khattari
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, multidisciplinary artist
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Ludwik Konarzewski, painting and sculpture
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Jules Benoit-Lévy
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Biography
Benoit-Lévy was born in Paris. He was the son of Baruch Benoit-Lévy (1821–1884) and Julie Strasburger (1826–1901). At the Paris Scho ...
, painting
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Victor Laloux, architecture
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Armand Laroche, painting
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Alexandre-Louis Leloir
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Life and career
Alexandre-Louis Leloir was born in Paris, France. He was born into a family with a rich artistic herita ...
painting and illustration
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Liem Bwan Tjie Liem Bwan Tjie (6 September 1891 – 28 July 1966) was a prominent architect, and a pioneering figure of modern Indonesian architecture. He belonged to the first generation of professionally trained Indonesian architects.
Early life and educati ...
, architect
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Lin Fengmian, painting
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Frédérique Lucien, painting
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Albert Marquet
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, painting
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Henri Matisse
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, painting
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Sophie Matisse, painting
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Edgar Maxence
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Life
He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is a contemporary of Henri Evenepoel, Jules Flandrin, Alb ...
, painting
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Annette Messager
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, installation, multi-media
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Vann Molyvann
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, architecture
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Claude Monet
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, painting
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Gustave Moreau
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, painting
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Julia Morgan
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, architecture, first woman to graduate from the school
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Michel Mossessian, architecture
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Marie Muracciole
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Early life
Marie Muracciole studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She shifted her visual art practice to writing in 1991.
Career
Muracciole ...
, curator, art critic
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Camila Oliveira Fairclough
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Early life
Camila Oliveira Fairclough was born in 1979 at Rio de Janeiro. She studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro) ...
, painter
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Ong Schan Tchow alias Yung Len Kwui, painting
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Alphonse Osbert
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Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters, particularly Jusepe de Ribera. A shift away from his academic style ...
, painting
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Pan Yuliang
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, painting
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Jean-Louis Pascal
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Life
Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel. He won the Grand Pri ...
, architecture
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Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany
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, painting and sculpture
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Christian de Portzamparc
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He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970 and has since been noted for his bold designs and artistic touch; his projects reflect a ...
, architecture,
Pritzker Prize
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laureate (1994)
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Théophile Poilpot, painting
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Léon Printemps
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Biography
Léon Printemps was born in Paris to a family which originally hailed from Lille. From an early age he was ...
, painting
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Syed Haider Raza
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, painting
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Alfred-Georges Regner, painting, engraving
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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, painting
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Henri Richelet, painting
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Hannes Rosenow
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Biography
After his graduation from the gymnasium in Ratibor in Upper Silesia, military draft and release from military internment ...
, painting
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Georges Rouault
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Childhood and education
Rouault was born in Paris into a po ...
, painting
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Abolhassan Khan Sadighi, sculptor and painter
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Bojan Šarčević, sculpture
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Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger
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Biography
Schützenberger was born in an Alsatian family of famous brewers in Strasbourg. He was a student of Paul Delaro ...
, painting
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Mahmoud Sehili, painter
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Joann Sfar
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Life and career
Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well kn ...
, design
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Alfred Sisley
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, painting
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Edward Stott
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, painting
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Clement Nye Swift
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Biography
Swift was born in 1846 in Acushnet, ...
, painting
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Siavash Teimouri, architect and historian of architecture
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António Teixeira Lopes
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Life
Teixeira Lopes was the son of sculptor José Joaquim Teixeira Lopes and started learning his art in his father's workshop. In 1882 he entered the Academ ...
, sculpture
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Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas, architecture
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Roland Topor
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, design
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Morton Traylor
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Biography
Born in Petersburg, Virginia, on April 6, 1918, Morton ...
, painting
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Guillaume Tronchet
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Life
Tronchet was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne. ...
, architecture
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Léon Vaudoyer, architecture
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Lydia Venieri
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Personal life
Background
Venieri was born in Athens, Greece. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She has lived in Paris and is currently living in New York. Her web s ...
, painting, sculpture, photography, multimedia
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Adrien Voisin
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Early life and education
Adrien Alexandre Voisin was born on May 8, 1979 i ...
, American sculptor
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Lucien Weissenburger
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Weissenburger was born and died in Nancy. He was one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Lorraine and was a member of the board of ...
, architecture
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Lucien Wercollier, sculpture
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Elsa Werth, artist
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Xu Beihong
Xu or XU may refer to:
People and characters
* Xu (surname), one of two Chinese surnames ( or /), transliterated as Xu in English
* ǃXu, a name for the ǃKung group of Bushmen; may also refer to the ǃKung language or the ǃKung people
* ǃXu ...
, painting
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Yan Pei-Ming, painting
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Yan Wenliang, painting
Cour du Mûrier
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École des beaux-arts
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Académie de peinture et de sculpture
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Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorpo ...
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Academic art
Academic art, or academicism or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. Specifically, academic art is the art and artists influenced by the standards of the French Académie ...
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Hôtel de Chimay
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List of works by Henri Chapu
Henri Chapu (1833–1891) was a French sculptor.
Chapu was born in Le Mée-sur-Seine on 30 September 1833. He trained at the École Gratuite de Dessin as a tapestry maker. In 1849 his successes led him to the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where ...
References
Review of ""Dieux et Mortels" a travelling exhibition of paintings and sculpture models from the collection of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2004
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fr:Beaux-Arts de Paris
External links
Beaux-Arts de Paris website
{{Authority control
Art schools in Paris
École des Beaux-Arts
Grands établissements
Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris
1648 establishments in France
Educational institutions established in the 1640s
Academic art, •Ecole Nationale