Academic Art -- The Renaissance Academy and French Royal Academy
Title: Academic Art -- The Renaissance Academy and French Royal Academy
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 827 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Academic Art -- The Renaissance Academy and French Royal Academy
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 827 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The first Academy of Art was founded in Florence by Giorgio Vasari, who called it the Accademia del Disegno - the academy of representation by signs. There students learnt the "arti del disegno", a term coined by Vasari, and included lectures on anatomy and geometry. Another academy, the Accademia di San Luca (named after the patron saint of painters, St. Luke), was founded a decade or so later in Rome. More so than the Florentine
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the patron to glorify him and his family, artists were also asked to depict their subjects with great melodrama and emotion-emotion that had to emphasize the power and bias of the patron. This style is heavily influenced by the king's French academy and becomes the new intellect and convention for what will be in the French court before the French Revolution which was caused by royal loftiness and lack of interest for the French authority.