PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS
Académies, a school, a style, known and imitated in the whole world ; The Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts is the heiress to a long history, started with the foundation of the Royal Académies of painting and sculpture in 1648 by Louis XIV, then of architecture in 1671. This institution is one of the latest to house under the same roof a modern education intended for the formation of future artists and collections made of 450 000 works of art, accumulated during its three hundred and fifty years of existence, which are also presented in exhibitions inside the school.
