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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:
- Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648)
- Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669)
- Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671)
Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including six dedicated prizes :
- Liliane Bettencourt Choral Singing Prize
- Pierre David-Weill Drawing Prize
- Pierre Cardin Prize
- Nahed Ojjeh Prize
- Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Music Prize
- Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Painting or Sculpture Prize
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