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Académie des beaux-arts

The Académie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a French learned society. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. It was created in 1816 as the merger of the:\n* Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648)\n* Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669)\n* Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671)

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1 Members
2 External link

Members

The members are grouped seven sections:\n* Section I: Painting \n* Section II: Sculpture \n* Section III: Architecture \n* Section IV: Etching \n* Section V: Musical composition \n* Section VI: Unattached members\n* Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and the audio-visual field

Section I

The number of members of the Painting section was reduced from 14 to 12 by the decree # 67-778 of
August 23, 1967. As a consequence, the seats #3 and #14 were suppressed. Their number was further decreased from 12 to 11 by decree on June 16, 1987. The seat #12 was transferred to section VII.

Seat #1

Seat #2

Seat #3

\nThis seat has been suppressed in 1967.

Seat #4

Seat #5

Seat #6

Seat #7

Seat #8

Seat #9

Seat #10

Seat #11

Seat #12

\nThis seat was transferred to section VII in 1987.

Seat #13

Seat #14

\nThis seat has been suppressed in 1967.

External link

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http://www.academie-des-beaux-arts.fr\n* http://www.institut-de-france.fr/institut/acabeaux.htm

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