The (; ) is a French

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based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the . The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect.

Background

The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671).

Awards

Currently, the provides several awards including five dedicated prizes:
. Prix et Concours. * Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing * Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Prize for Music * Pierre Cardin Prize for Design * François-Victor Noury Prize * Fondation Pierre Gianadda Prize Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in

libretto A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to th ...

or music composition.

Presidents

* 1995: Serge Nigg * 1996: * 1997: Jean Cardot * 1998: Christian Langlois * 1999: * 2000: Marius Constant * 2001: Pierre Schoendoerffer * 2002: Pierre Carron * 2003: * 2004: Roger Taillibert * 2005: Jean Prodromidès * 2006: * 2007: Pierre Schoendoerffer (2nd term) * 2008: * 2009: * 2010: Roger Taillibert (2nd term) * 2011: Laurent Petitgirard * 2012: François-Bernard Michel (2nd term) * 2013: Lucien Clergue * 2014: * 2015: * 2016: Érik Desmazières * 2017: Édith Canat de Chizy * 2018: Patrick de Carolis * 2019: Pierre Carron (2nd term) * 2020: * 2021 Alain-Charles Perrot

Members

Constituted around the notion of multidisciplinarity, the brings together sixty-three members within nine artistic sections, sixteen foreign associate members and sixty-three corresponding members. The members are grouped into nine sections: * Section I:

Painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

* Section II:

Sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

* Section III:

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

* Section IV:

Engraving Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a Burin (engraving), burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or Glass engraving, glass ar ...

* Section V:

Musical composition Musical composition can refer to an Originality, original piece or work of music, either Human voice, vocal or Musical instrument, instrumental, the musical form, structure of a musical piece or to the process of creating or writing a new pie ...

* Section VI: Unattached (Free) members * Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields (since 1985) * Section VIII:

Photography Photography is the visual arts, art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is empl ...

(since 2005) * Section IX:

Choreography Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A chor ...

(since 2018) Current members:

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