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In the National Interest: Art, the Sun King and the Academic Revolution
November 9, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Lecture by Richard Whincop
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was founded in 1648 under Louis XIV of France , the “Sun King” and placed the visual arts under direct royal control. The Lecture looks at the origins of the Académie and its evolution in the centuries which followed.