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The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture or Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture was founded in 1648, Paris. Paris already had the Académie de Saint-Luc, which was a city artist guild like any other Guild of Saint Luke. The purpose of this academy was to professionalize the artists working for the French court and give them a stamp of approval artists of the St. Luke's guild did not have. Jean-Baptiste Colbert made the arts a main part in the glorification of Louis XIV and took control of the Academy in 1661. From 1683 on, it reached its greatest power under the directorship of Charles Le Brun with its hierarchy of members and strict system of education. [1]

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