Beaux-Arts
ÉCOLE DES, a national school of fine arts in France, founded in 1648. It received its final title in 1893. Affiliated with it are a number of ateliers which are practically workshops. The Ecole includes schools of architecture, painting, and sculpture. and architecture and other branches of Courses in drawing, painting, sculpture, art are free. The Prix de Rome is awarded each year. Many American artists have been trained at the Ecole. where it maintains a noted collection of Its home is the Palais des Beaux-Arts, copies of famous paintings made by the winners of the Prix de Rome.
BEAUX-ARTS INSTITUTE OF DE- SIGN, a society incorporated in 1916 to carry on the work previously conducted by the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects.
There are departments of architecture, sculpture, mural painting, and interior decoration. The Paris Prize is offered annually, and by its terms the winner receives $1,200 yearly for two and a half years, to study architecture in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.