Academies of Art in Europe and the Americas, 1600–1900 - Oscar E. Vázquez, Ulrich Pfisterer, Peter M. Lukehart

A 300-year history of influential artist training academies in more than a dozen countries  This ambitious volume delves into the institutional history of art academies. These academies provided practical training for artists as well as spaces for theoretical discussions and debates as they emerged across Europe and the Americas around 1600 and through their proliferation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many were founded under official auspices, with state, ecclesiastical, or monarchical... Zobrazit více