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- Creation of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) by the young Louis XIV.
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The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (French: [akademi ʁwajal də pɛ̃tyʁ e də skyltyʁ]; English: "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 abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution .
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) was established in 1648. It oversaw—and held a monopoly over—the arts in France until 1793.
Alfred Munnings took office in 1944. He became infamous when, during one RA dinner in 1949, he drunkenly began to berate modern art and aspects of the Academy itself. After slating Picasso, he moved on to London County Council, who he criticised for exhibiting modern sculpture in Battersea Park, and the Tate for showing Matisse.
Creation of the Académie royale d’Architecture (Royal Academy of Architecture). Representing Republican France, the Institut national des sciences et des arts is created. Its third class, Literature and Fine Arts, heralded the future Académie des beaux-arts.
Nonetheless, the group had a fair few star players – let’s meet a few of the founders who started this institution more than 250 years ago…. Joshua Reynolds. One of Britain’s leading...
…by the king, founded the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, an organization that dictated style to such a degree that it virtually controlled the fortunes of all French artists for the remainder of the reign.
The painters among the R.A.'s founding members were its first president, Sir Joshua Reynolds; the portraitist Thomas Gainsborough; the landscapist Richard Wilson; and Benjamin West, a colonial American who became president upon Reynolds' death in 1792. The functions of the academy were many.
