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The École Des Beaux-Arts
Introdution
Palais Des Etudes Interior
First, there was the Academy
The Founder of the academy .
who was chief minister for the king of France, the five year old Louis XIV.
Introduction
Cardinal Mazarin
At its foundation it was named the Académie des Beaux Arts
France had long seen itself as somewhat of an intellectual centre of international fine art and high culture
Instructional
Settings
A straightforward bifurcation of the academy was established, into one curriculum for art & sculpture, and another for architecture.
Standards
Evolution
Development
The King brought it under government control, mostly in order to find students to populate his palace at Versailles.
a prestigious school set up in 1666 by a now older Louis XIV.
the Academy become an intellectual centre of architecture and art: provoking debate and creating philosophers on architecture.
Conservative in its methods and output.
Progression in the academy was dependent on following a rigorous course structure.
It drew primarily from the classical Greek and Roman arts.
Style
École was increasingly seen as too rigid in its methods.
As new, more radical and experimental forms of art emerged in the 19th century, such as Impressionism and Expressionism
Claude Monet
Claude Monet famously refused to attend due to this, though other Impressionists did and went on to join him making a name for themselves.
Claude Monet
New Methods
Competitor schools opened up that had a more
- open .
- and flexible approach to artistic style.
It remained a government institution throughout the tumultuous late 18th century and early 19th century, and contributed greatly to the preservation movement in the 1830s.
The École’s architectural development
Development
Before to the Revolution, the site of the École had been the monastery of the Petits Augustins, a long aisle-less chapel with a western cloister and a large garden.
He envisaged the Palais des Études, the main building of the site, functioning as a museum or showroom rather than a teaching building
Felix Duban
The physical setting :The main entrance at 14 Rue Bonaparte is flanked by colossal carved heads of Pierre Paul Puget and Nicolas Poussin
Physical elements
Photos
École des Beaux-Arts