What is Académie des Beaux-Arts?
[[File:Institut de France - Académie française et pont des Arts.jpg|right|200px|thumb|{{center|The Institut de France; seat of the Académie des Beaux-Arts}}]] The '''Académie des Beaux-Arts''' ({{IPA-fr|akademi de boz‿aʁ}}, ''Academy of Fine Arts'') is a French [[learned society]]. It is one of the five academies of the [[Institut de France]]. The current President of the Academy (2016) is {{ill|Érik Desmazières|wd=Q3591445}}. The Academy was created in 1816 in [[Paris]] as a merger of the [[Académie de peinture et de sculpture]] (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the [[Académie de musique]] (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the [[Académie royale d'architecture|Académie d'architecture]] (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671). ==Other websites == * [https://www.institutdefrance.fr/ Institut de France website] {{europe-stub}} [[Category:1810s establishments in France]] [[Category:1816 establishments in Europe]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Paris]]