Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts. The Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts is a fine arts grand school of PSL Research University in Paris, France.
The Ecole des beaux-arts is made up of a complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte. This is in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, just across the Seine from the Louvre museum.
The school was founded in 1648 by Charles Le Brun as the famed French academy Academie de peinture et de sculpture. In 1793, at the height of the French Revolution, the institutes were suppressed.
However, in 1817, following the Bourbon Restoration, it was revived under a changed name after merging with the Academie d'architecture. Held under the King's tutelage until 1863, an imperial decree on November 13, 1863 named the school's director, who serves for a five-year term.
Long supervised by the Ministry of Public Instruction, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts is now a public establishment under the Ministry of Culture. The Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts in Paris is the original of a series of Ecoles des beaux-arts in French regional centers. Since its founding in 1648, the Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture has had a school, France's elite institution of instruction in the arts. Its program was structured around a series of anonymous competitions that culminated in the grand prix de l'Academie Royale, more familiar as