Académie de Saint-Luc

The Académie de Saint -Luc was a public art school in Paris, at the initiative of the " Communauté des maîtres peintres et sculpteurs de Paris " (in short: maitrise ) - was founded in the 18th century - the community of Parisian painters and sculptors Master in whose house on the Île de la Cité " proche S. Denys de la Charte " was housed in today's rue de la Cité, near the Pont Notre -Dame bridge. The school trained since the Middle Ages sculptors, painters and craftsmen. It was closed when the maitrise was disbanded in 1776 by ​​order of the king.

The origin of this after St. Luke, the patron saint of painters, named school is attributed to the on August 12, 1391, as confirmed by the Prévôt de Paris Jean de Folleville founding statutes of maitrise. Own statutes left the Académie Saint- Luc, however, only on November 17, 1705 be confirmed by the Parlement ( high court ) to royale de peinture et de sculpture counteract the increasing influence of the Académie founded in 1648, which her ​​own school, the " Ecole royale de peinture et de sculpture " entertained.

Based on the three of the maitrise awarded to three students sign the Académie Saint- Luc annual prizes to the Académie royale awarded from 1666 donated by King Louis XIV Prix de Rome.

The Académie de Saint -Luc resisted the claim of the Académie royale on a sole and complete mastery of the art world and the introduction of an artificial monopoly. So she reacted, for example, the royale of the Académie resumed in 1699 tradition of art exhibitions - the later after her exhibition, "Salon Carrée " of the Louvres were called parlors - by 1751 organized seven of its own art exhibitions in the years up to 1774.

The first art exhibition of the Académie de Saint -Luc in 1751 found in the Augustinian monastery instead, those of the years 1752, 1753 and 1756 in the royal arsenal, the seat of the Grand Master of the Artillery. For the following exhibitions of 1762 and 1764, the Hôtel d' Aligre was used, the last was in 1774, two years before the closing of the Academy in the former Hôtel on the rue Neuve Jabach -Saint -Merry instead.

See also: Guild of St. Luke

List of members of the Académie de Saint- Luc ( Paris)

This sortable list is in alphabetical order. It can be sorted by clicking on the top row of the column according to other criteria. The list is not exhaustive. Unless otherwise specified originate the persons listed from France.