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  Royal Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Academy is an art institution based in London.
The Royal Academy was formed to rival the Society of Artists after an unseemly leadership dispute between two leading architects, Sir William Chambers and James Paine.
In 2004 the highlights of the Academy's permanent collection went on display in the newly restored reception rooms of the original section of Burlington House, which are now known as the "John Madejski Fine Rooms".
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 Royal Academy of Arts. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
London, the national academy of art of England, founded in 1768 by George III at the instigation of Sir William Chambers and Benjamin West.
Sir Joshua Reynolds was the Academy’s first president, holding the office until his death in 1792.
In 1867 the academy was given a lease of 999 years on Burlington House and the adjoining gardens, where its galleries and school have since been erected.
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 Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Museums, Public Buildings and Galleries - Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy, which now occupies the eastern wing of the National Gallery, was incorporated in December, 1768; and Sir Joshua Reynolds, who received the honour of knighthood on the occasion, was appointed its first president.
The Royal Academy derives the whole of its funds from the produce of its annual exhibition, to which the price of admission is one shilling, and the catalogue one shilling.
Any person desiring to become a student of the Royal Academy, presents a drawing or model of his own performance to the keeper, which, if considered by him a proof of sufficient ability, is laid before the Council, together with a testimony of his moral character, from an Academician, or other known person of respectability.
www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/royalacademy.htm   (961 words)

  
 Royal Swedish Academy of Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl.
Akademien för de fria konsterna, founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden.
The art school once an integral part of the Academy, the Royal University College of Fine Arts, was in 1978 broken out as an independent entity directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Education.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Arts   (117 words)

  
 Victorian Art Institutions: Academies, Schools, Galleries
In 1836 the east wing of the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square was granted by the government to the Royal Academy, and there it remained until it removed, in 1869, to the present building, Burlington House, Piccadilly, which was purchased by the Crown in 1854.
They were established for the purpose of teaching instructors in art throudhout the kingdom, as well as for the instruetion of students in drawing, designing, and modeling, to be applied to the requirements of trade and manufacture.
At the end of the course of four years, if the record of the pupil is satisfactory to the examining committee, he or she is given a diploma, which is aceepted throughout the civilized world as the highest award of excellence in that particular department.
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 Review: The King's Artists: the Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840
The first, 'Academies of Art' focuses precisely on this topic, to ground the founding of the RA within history and to discuss how, once founded, it itself provided a model for provincial Academies elsewhere in the British Isles.
This is in and of itself interesting, for Hoare was a painter of pastel portraits, based in Bath, and royal favour therefore indicates both the cultural clout of that city, and the catholicity of taste exercised when it came to measuring the merits of some artists.
Hoock maintains that these tensions took the Academy to the edge of dissolution in the earlier years of the nineteenth century, before stasis was restored to a demonstrably weaker institution.
www.history.ac.uk /reviews/paper/rosenthalM.html   (2088 words)

  
 ACADEMY, ROYAL - Online Information article about ACADEMY, ROYAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The government of the Academy was by the " Instrument " vested in " a president and eight other persons, who shall forma council." Four of these were to retire every year, and the seats were to go by rotation to every academician.
officers of the Academy are the president, the keeper, the treasurer, the librarian and the secretary, all now elected by the general assembly, subject to the approval of the sovereign.
The trust funds administered by the Royal Academy are: The Turner fund (J. Turner, R.A.), which provides sixteen annuities of £5o each, for artists of repute not members of the Academy, also a biennial scholarship of £5o and a gold medal for a landscape painting.
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 Art in the Age of Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Upon entering Art in the Age of Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts at the Frye Art Musuem, one is greeted by a great white marble bust of none other than Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
The Royal Academy was founded by King George III in 1768 to promote "the cultivation and study of art and architecture." Sir Joshua Reynolds, renowned English painter and the Academy's first President, described the Academy as a "repository for the great examples of Art," and yes, that is art with a capital "A."
Here we have an actual scene of men of the Academy, men of prestige and education, sitting in a storehouse of Art (remember, with a capital "A") with top hats and silver-tipped canes on their knees, eagerly scrutinizing the new crop of works to be admitted to the Academy.
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 Royal Academy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Royal Academy is an (The creation of beautiful or significant things) art institution based in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
The Royal Academy was formed to rival the Society of Artists after an unseemly leadership dispute between two leading (Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)) architects, Sir (English architect (1723-1796)) William Chambers and (Click link for more info and facts about James Paine) James Paine.
The Academy also hosts an annual (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Academy summer exhibition) Royal Academy summer exhibition of new art, which is a well known event on the London social calendar.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_academy.htm   (1961 words)

  
 AGREGATION EXTERNE 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Correspondence with the Academies of Vienna and St. Petersburg, on the Cultivation of the Fine Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, in the Austrian and Russian Dominions.
Petersburg, on the Present Cultivation of the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture: A Summary Report of the Transactions of the Royal Academy of London, from the Close of the Exhibition, 1802, to the Same Period, 1803.
Royal Academy of Arts, The Exhibition of the Royal Academy (London, 1769-1820).
www.univ-pau.fr /saes/pb/concours/bibliconc/04/artnation.htm   (3343 words)

  
 The Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts, or as it is often abbreviated, the RA, was founded in 1768 by a group of artists headed by portrait painter Joshua Reynolds.
At the same time the Society of Artists, a sort of art guild composed of the leading artistic talents of the day, such as Hogarth himself, Joshua Reynolds, and Thomas Gainsborough, was being riven by internal squabbles and petty politics.
Although the academy was officially under the patronage of King George III (hence the "Royal" in the title), it received no official funding beyond the initial grant for small premises in Pall Mall, and was free to operate in its own way.
www.britainexpress.com /History/culture/royal-academy.htm   (785 words)

  
 Art in America: Charlotte Salomon: A Visual Testament - exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Using a dazzling variety of pictorial techniques and narrative strategies, Charlotte Salomon, who was killed by the Nazis at age 26, told the story of her suicide-prone family and her own romantic and artistic struggles.
An exhibition devoted to her work is on view at London's Royal Academy until mid-January.
The reasons for this include her marginalization as a "Holocaust artist" and the fact that practically her entire oeuvre is in the hands of a single historical institution and thus removed from the publicity-generating activities of the art market.
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 Foundation of the Royal Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It was this academy, under Hogarth, that thrived, and formulated the plan for a British academy for all the arts.
The new Royal Academy was to contain a maximum 40 Academicians (RA), to which group a new member could be elected only after the death of an existing member.
Although William Chambers had been the instigator of the new Royal Academy, it was decided that an eminent painter should be the first President of the body, and Reynolds was chosen.
www.speel.demon.co.uk /royacad.htm   (1087 words)

  
 The Royal Academy of Arts : : About the Royal Academy of Arts
We are an independent fine arts institution which supports contemporary artists and promotes interest in the arts through a comprehensive and ambitious exhibition programme.
The Royal Academy is completely autonomous, politically independent and self-funding.
The Royal Academy is governed by the Royal Academicians, who are all eminent practising painters, printmakers, sculptors and architects.
www.royalacademy.org.uk /?lid=93   (316 words)

  
 Royal Academy of Arts on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
"Paris: capital of the arts 1900-1968"; Royal Academy of Arts, London.
How I found my real father (only to see him engulfed in a money scandal at London's Royal Academy); A young writer tells for the first time the story of his quest for his birth parents that led him to artist Brendan...
Educated at Antwerp's Royal Academy of Fine Arts, she lives in her native Belgium.
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 Royal Academy Illustrated 2003 :: Cuming, Fred :: Royal Academy of Arts Publications
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, has held its popular Summer Exhibition since 1769, drawing art lovers, tourists, and art buyers from around the world.
This year, approximately 180 works are illustrated, accompanied by installation shots of the Royal Academy's galleries and commentaries on the works themselves.
Frank Whitford is an art historian and author of the award-winning exhibition catalogue Kandinsky: Watercolours and Other Works on Paper.
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 Royal Ballet page on Ballet.co
The Royal Ballet is one of a handful of world class companies with a repertoire and back-catalogue of productions to die for.
What the Royal has, which few other companies at this level can compete with, is a naturalness in the classical and dramatic repertoire that brings their productions to life like few others.
Normally based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London), but currently wandering around as the theatre is rebuilt.
www.ballet.co.uk /links/royal_ballet.htm   (470 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Royal Academy denies crisis
A director at the Royal Academy of Arts has denied the arts institution is in crisis over the discovery of an unauthorised £80,000 bank account set up by Professor Brendan Neiland, the keeper of the Royal Academy Schools who resigned three weeks ago.
Mr Nickson said: "The Royal Academy did have a crisis eight years ago (when the bursar was forced to resign and sentenced to five years in jail for stealing £400,000 from the Academy), it does not have a crisis now.
A former secretary of the Academy, David Gordon, now director of the Milwaukee Art Museum in the United States told the PM programme: "Brendan Neiland...did enormous things to raise the profile of the schools, but as an academician he felt he shouldn't be trammelled by rules of financial control.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3584420.stm   (572 words)

  
 Royal Academy of Arts --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Its headquarters, art museum, and educational facilities are located in Burlington House, in the borough of Westminster.
In the late 15th and early 16th centuries, a series of short-lived “academies” that had little to do with artistic training were founded...
Art academy founded in 1768, housed in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London, England.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9103986   (823 words)

  
 Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Lawrence was knighted in 1815 and became President of the Royal Academy in 1820.
Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection
Organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and touring with the assistance of the Denver Art Museum.
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 Amazon.com: Books: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria : Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Drawing on more than 70 paintings and sculptures from the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the book discusses important artists of the time, their subjects, styles, and techniques, and the role of the Royal Academy during Queen Victoria`s reign.
With 4 essays giving background on Victorian art and history, a chronology of major art events during Queen Victoria's reign, mini-biographies of all the artists, and the 76 works of art from the collection (plus a few extra thrown in!)all beautifully reproduced, this is definitely a collection worth owning.
The works are all from the Royal Academy of Art collection and were donated as each artists' best work in order to be granted full academy status and it shows.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300079974?v=glance   (600 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Royal Academy ejects its former schools head
Brendan Neiland, the former head of the Royal Academy schools accused of financial misconduct, has been stripped of membership of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Prof Neiland condemned the investigation, saying that since he was "frogmarched out of the academy in July by security" he had had no chance to present his side of the story, except when "tried and condemned" by RA secretary Lawton Fitt.
Prof Neiland originally resigned from the headship of the RA's art school in July last year, and was thereafter suspended pending the enquiry.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/story/0,11711,1493663,00.html?gusrc=rss   (726 words)

  
 The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > Much News Is Bad News at Royal Academy
But even friends of the academy fear that they reflect a deeper crisis in the way the institution is run.
This was starkly evident in this spring's battle between Lawton Fitt, the academy's new secretary, or chief administrator, and Norman Rosenthal, its long-time exhibitions secretary, or chief curator.
Neiland's resignation, the academy said it had discovered "an unauthorized bank account in the schools and a pattern of unauthorized deposits and disbursements." Charging that the equivalent of $144,000 had not been "properly documented," it said it had addressed this "regrettable business" promptly and firmly.
www.nytimes.com /2004/08/18/arts/design/18acad.html?ex=1250568000&en=6bffd0d88bd9f474&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland   (784 words)

  
 Royal Academy
The Royal Academy was founded in 1768 by a group of leading artists and under the patronage of George III.
Royal Academy include: William Blake, Thomas Lawrence and J.
Royal Academy also gave an opportunity for artists to exhibit and sell their work at an annual Summer Exhibition.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jacademy.htm   (240 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Royal Academy of Arts (European Art, 1600 To The Present) - Encyclopedia
Royal Academy of Arts, European Art, 1600 To The Present
Royal Academy of Arts, London, the national academy of art of England, founded in 1768 by George III at the instigation of Sir William Chambers and Benjamin West.
• Literature and the Arts > Art and Architecture
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 handprint : the poetic landscape
For art collectors, these richly glowing landscapes evoked nostalgic or elegaic emotional connections with the past, unlike their response to a topographer's dryly objective records of the present.
But toward the end of the 18th century, traditional art theories and painting genres grew increasingly inadequate to guide artists painting from nature or in new media such as watercolors (disparaged by academics as a kind of drawing).
The theories were defensively modified, rationalized and asserted by the newly founded Royal Academy of Arts under Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose judgments strongly influenced the prestige of artists and their reception by wealthy patrons.
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