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grande école A (; ) is a specialized top-level educational institution in France and some other countries such as Morocco and Tunisia. are part of an alternative educational system that operates alongside the mainstream List of public universities in Franc ...

'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level

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education and training. The

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, which is part of the

Paris Sciences et Lettres University PSL University (PSL or in French Université PSL, for Paris Sciences et Lettres) is a ''Grands établissements, Grand établissement'' based in Paris, France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a colle ...

, is located on two sites:

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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 The Rue Bonaparte () is a street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It spans the Quai Voltaire/Quai Malaquais to the Jardin du Luxembourg, crossing the Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Place Saint-Sulpice and has housed many of France's mos ...

. This is in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just across the Seine from the

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museum. The school was founded in 1648 by

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as the famed French academy ''

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie royale de peinture et de 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 abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution. I ...

''. In 1793, at the height of the French Revolution, the institutes were suppressed. However, in 1817, following the Bourbon Restoration, it was revived under a changed name after merging with the

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. 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 is now a public establishment under the Ministry of Culture.

History

The is the original of a series of in French regional centers. Since its founding in 1648, the

has had a school, France's

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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, for its winner was awarded a bourse and a place at the

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. 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

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; 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 Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

's '' Andromache Mourning Hector'' was his reception offering in 1783; today it is in the collections of the

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. In 1793, during the French Revolution, 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

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, 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 ''

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s''. Lesser competitions, known as the ''petits concours'', took themes like history composition (which resulted in many sketches illustrating instructive moments from antiquity), 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

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s and

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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. 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 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 a French painter who was a 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 mythologic ...

Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of ...

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 Rigau ...

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 art ...

, Hubert Robert and

Ingres Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres ( ; ; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassicism, Neoclassical Painting, painter. Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic ...

), 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 ( , ; ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana (Veronese), The Wedding ...

, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange,

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6March 147518February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was inspir ...

, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer,

Rembrandt Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...

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, 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

The physical setting of the school stands on about two hectares in the

section of Paris. The main entrance at 14 Rue Bonaparte is flanked by colossal carved heads of Pierre Paul Puget and

(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 Marie Alexandre Lenoir (; 27 December 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a French archaeologist. Self-taught, he devoted himself to saving France's historic monuments, sculptures and tombs from the ravages of the French Revolution, notably those of Sain ...

'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, a former student and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, 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

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, and in the courtyard a facade from the Château de Gaillon, since removed and returned to its original site in 1977. 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

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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 Hippolyte-Paul Delaroche (; Paris, 17 July 1797 – Paris, 4 November 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subje ...

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

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, architect Ictinus, and painter

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, 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

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Palais des Études

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Chapel

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Academic staff

Directors

* Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume, 1864–1878 * Paul Dubois, 1878 * François Wehrlin * Yves Michaud, 1989–1997 * Alfred Pacquement * Nicolas Untersteller 1948 * Jean-Didier Wolframm * Henry-Claude Cousseau * Nicolas Bourriaud, 2011–2015 *

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, 2015–2019 * Jean de Loisy, 2019–2021 * Alexia Fabre, 2022-

Notable instructors

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, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limit ...

* Pierre Alechinsky * Louis-Jules André *

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, the ...

* François Boisrond *

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 style. Early life Boltanski wa ...

* Duchenne de Boulogne *

Alexandre Cabanel Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French Painting, painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the Academic art, academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. He was Napoleon ...

* Pierre Carron * Béatrice Casadesus * Jean-François Chevrier * César * Nina Childress * Claude Closky * Leonardo Cremonini * Julien Creuzet * Richard Deacon * Olivier Debré * Louis Girault * Julien Guadet * Abraham Hadad *

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 sci ...

* Victor Laloux * Jean-Paul Laurens * Barbara Leisgen *

* Henri Lehmann * Michel Marot *

Antonin Mercié Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris), was a French Sculpture, sculptor, Medalist, medallist and Painting, painter. Biography Mercié entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ...

Annette Messager Annette Messager (born 30 November 1943) is a French visual artist. She is known for championing the techniques and materials of outsider art. In 2005, she won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale for her artwork at the French pavilion, F ...

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 ...

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 P ...

* Emmanuel Pontremoli * Abraham Pincas * Paul Richer * Charles-Caïus Renoux * Jean-Joseph Sue, father * Jean-Joseph Sue, son * Tadashi Kawamata * Tatiana Trouvé * Jean-Luc Vilmouth

Notable alumni

* Agegnehu Engida, painter * Nadir Afonso, painter * Paul Ahyi, painter, sculptor, designer of the

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, Famous Iranian poet, writer and painter * Theo Akkermann, German sculptor * Wahbi al-Hariri, sculpture, painting, and architecture * Rodolfo Amoedo, painting * Beatrice Valentine Amrhein, painting * Ouanes Amor, painting *

Émile André François-Émile André (August 22, 1871 – March 10, 1933) was a French architect, artist, and furniture designer. He was the son of the architect of Charles André and the father of two other architects, Jacques André (architect), Jacques ...

, architecture * Ximena Armas, painting * Yolande Ardissone, painting * Léon Azéma, architecture * Théodore Ballu, architecture * Myron G. Barlow, painting * Lucien Georges Bazor, sculpture * Ahmed Benyahia, painting, sculpture, film * Jean-Francois Bocle, painter * Ernest Boiceau, drawing, painting and architecture *

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, painting * Gustave Boulanger, painting *

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, designer & poster artist *

Antoine Bourdelle Antoine Bourdelle (; 30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important ...

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, painting * Marie-Antoinette Demagnez, sculpture * Jean Desbois, architecture * Louis Deschamps, painting * Paul Devautour, installation, multi-media * Jean Dries, painting * Félix Duban, architecture * Henri Evenepoel, painting * Fang Ganmin, painting, sculpture * Anne Flournoy, filmmaker *

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, painting *

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, fashion designer * Charles Garnier, architecture * Tony Garnier, architecture *

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, painting * David Gerstein, painting, sculpture *

Théodore Géricault Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (; 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is '' The Raft of the Medusa''. Despite his short life, he was one of the pioneers of the Romanti ...

, painting *

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, fashion designer * Louis Girault, architecture *

Jacques Gréber Jacques-Henri-Auguste Gréber (10 September 1882 – 5 June 1962) was a French architect specializing in landscape architecture and urban design. He was a strong proponent of the Beaux-Arts style and a contributor to the City Beautiful movement ...

, landscape architect * Aaron Goodelman, sculptor * Liliana Gramberg, printmaker and painter * Michael Gross, painter and sculptor * Julien Guadet, architecture * Yves Hernot, Painting and Surrealistic photos * Emil Hünten, painter *

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, painting * Charles Isabelle, architecture * Robert Jay Wolff, painting, sculpture *

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, painting * Bernadette Kanter, sculptor * Majida Khattari, multidisciplinary artist * Ludwik Konarzewski, painting and sculpture * Jules Benoit-Lévy, painting * Victor Laloux, architecture * Armand Laroche, painting * Alexandre-Louis Leloir painting and illustration * Liem Bwan Tjie, architect * Lin Fengmian, painting * Frédérique Lucien, painting *

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, painting *

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, painting * Sophie Matisse, painting * Edgar Maxence, painting *

, installation, multi-media *

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, architecture *

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, painting *

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, architecture, first woman to graduate from the school * Michel Mossessian, architecture *

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, curator, art critic * Camila Oliveira Fairclough, painter * Ong Schan Tchow alias Yung Len Kwui, painting * Alphonse Osbert, painting *

Pan Yuliang Pan Yuliang (, 14 June 1895 – 22 July 1977), born as Chen Xiuqing, also known as Zhang Yuliang (張玉良), is remembered as the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. She studied in Shanghai and Paris, and taught at the Beaux-Arts ...

, painting *

, architecture *

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, painting and sculpture *

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, architecture,

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laureate (1994) * Théophile Poilpot, painting * Léon Printemps, painting * Syed Haider Raza, painting * Alfred-Georges Regner, painting, engraving *

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, painting * Jean-Paul Réti, sculpture * Henri Richelet, painting * Hannes Rosenow, painting * Georges Rouault, painting * Abolhassan Khan Sadighi, sculptor and painter * Bojan Šarčević, sculpture * Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger, painting * Mahmoud Sehili, painter *

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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 * 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 •Ecole Nationale

History

Collections

Campus

Palais des Études

Chapel

Academic staff

Directors

Notable instructors

Notable alumni

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See also

References

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