Regulating the Académie
Subtitle: art, rules and power in ancien régime France
By: Reed Benhamou.
Contributors: Voltaire Foundation.
Series: SVEC -- 2009:08; SVEC -- 2009:08.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780729409728
Subjects: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France) -- Regulations; Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France) -- History; Art -- France -- 18th century -- History; Art and state -- France -- History -- 18th century; France -- Civilization -- 18th century
Notes: "The ... Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ... was abolished in 1793. ... its dissolution ... can only be fully understood in the context of the evolving governance of the institution."--Page [4] of printed paper wrapper.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-294) and index.

Text in English; appendices and quotations in French.