The Académie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts) is a Frenchlearned 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)