Academic Art
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
Break at the Inn for the Rural Policeman 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
DE LAUNEY Fernand (19th Century)
Break at the Inn for the Rural Policeman
Oil on Wood Panel signed Low Left
Old frame gilded with Leaves
Dim wood : 33 X 41 cm
Dim frame : 48 X 56 cm...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Torah Scholar, Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Torah Scholar
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 13.75 x 19.75 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed...
Category
1960s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American
Located in Miami, FL
1942 Calendar illustration featuring the First Lady of Haiti (Madame Elie Lescot]) rendered in a precise stipple effect and celebrating African-American women which was titled "Twelve American Women." It was executed during the hight of World War II. Lois Mailou Jones...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Le pont de Saint Gérmain de Couilly (sur le Grand Morin)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Salon, Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1879 (no. 647)
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Marble Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in white Carrara marble of Apollo head .
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
$7,126 Sale Price
25% Off
Pasture with Cows
By Rémy Cogghe
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in Mouscron in the Belgian province of Hainaut, Cogghe attended the Academy of Roubaix where he studied under Constantin Mils. In 1876, Cogghe was admitted to the École Nation...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Dogs Playing Scottish Terrier Woman Illustrator of the Golden Age Animalier
Located in Miami, FL
Animalier and female illustrator of the Golden Age, Gladys Emerson Cook, draws a tension-filled picture of two Scottish Terriers fighting over a stick. With a few lines, the artist ...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Pretending (The Great Performance)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1890' lower right
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Miss Carolyn Edmunson
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
The art world today does not value traditional academic skills in portrait painting. If it did, this portrait would replace the childlike student-level art that is now achieving two...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hercules Italian Stone Sculpture of Classical Torso with Base
Located in Rome, IT
This reproduction of a classical Hellenistic sculpture of Hercules .
A timeless piece for interior and a garden decoration.
We can raise with a base on request .
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
Marble Sculpture of Roman Mythological subject Apollo
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in white Carrara marble of Apollo head .
Measurements: Statues cm 150, base cm 85.
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
$7,601 Sale Price
20% Off
Duke of Wellington
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Duke of Wellington by Vladislav Khristenko
Size of the image - 25 x 15 cm
Size of the list - 34 x 22.5 cm
Size in frame - 42 x 32 cm
Etching and aquatint on paper
#15 from edition ...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Lady in Middle-Age Suits, Pastel 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
FANTIN LATOUR Theodore (1805 – 1875)
« Young Lady dressed with middle-age suit »
Pastel on card signed low right
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim pastel : 80 X 63 cm
Dim fr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Pastel
Women with Resting Minotaur
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil Painting of a women with a sleeping Minotaur.
Light neutral white painting by Cuban Artist Jesus Nordarse.
18 x 18 inches.
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting 19th Century Landscape Antique Ruins
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BACHMANN Alfred Félix August (1863-1956)
Walking by the Antique Ruins
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 54 X 65 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Love
the Jester - Oil Painting of Sacrifice
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil Painting of a Love and Sacrafice by Cuban Artist Jesus Nordarse.
Oil on Canvas. 18 x 18 inches.
THE MAN: Jesús Nodarse Valdés was born in Sagua la Grande, Cuba in 1973. He studi...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,450 Sale Price
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French School 18th Century - Seaside Landscape With Roman Ruins and Galleon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 18th Century
In the taste of Joseph VERNET (1714-1789)
Seaside Landscape with Roman Ruins and Galleon
Oil on canvas
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 61 X 73...
Category
Late 18th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Old-fashioned figurative drawing nude ink on paper, 19th century
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing, India ink on paper, falls within the studies of antiquity popular in the Academies from the 18th century onward, and refers to the frieze of an ancient sarcophagus.
Al c...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Florentine religious figurative drawing from the 20th century front back
By Giuseppe Fraschetti
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing is signed at lower left "G. Fraschetti," or Giuseppe Fraschetti, a Florence-born artist who was a pupil of Giacomo Lolli, active mainly in Tuscany at the turn of the 19th...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Pretending (Lunch from the Café)
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed and dated '1910' lower right
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bust of veiled woman
Located in Roma, RM
Giulio Tadolini ( Rome 1849 - 1918 ) ( attr. to ), Bust of veiled woman
Bronze 61 x 37 x 22 cm.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Bronze
$5,344
A Sideways Glance
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed with monogram lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Exhibited:
Royal Academy, London, 1880, no. 355 (as Summer)
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leaves II, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "Leaves II" is an oil painting that depicts yellow Fall leaves with a cream colored background
Elizabeth Zanzinger is an award-winning painter with an enthusiastic international following. She developed her artistic voice through her studies at the Aristides Atelier and Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle. Elizabeth finished her education with a fellowship award (Grand Prize, 2nd Annual Utrecht Art...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Actress June Knight
Located in Miami, FL
Celebrity portrait sketch of
actress June Knight but James Montgomery Flagg on card stock in two colors.
Signed and inscribed lower right. The work is unframed.
There
is a slight cr...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
Calligraphy 1
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1969
1991, Graduated top of his class at Iranian Society of Calligraphy, Tehran
1993, Graduated from the Wood Industry & Paper-making, Tehran
Sol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Oil
GRISAILLE 19th Century - Cherubs Are Playing Music
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GRISAILLE 19th Century (anonymous)
Cherubs asleep
Part of "Rococo Style" made famous by François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
Oil on canvas Circa 1850
Frame re-gilded
Dim canvas : 50 X 70 c...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape of Mountains
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape of Mountains
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 92 X 112 cm
MOSNY Henry (...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
A.POURFILET - Original Painting Early 20th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A.POURFILET (19th-20th Century)
Still life with Peaches and Grapes
Oil on card signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim card : 33 X 41 cm
Dim frame : 50 X 58 cm
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Riva d
Arno in Florence
Located in Roma, RM
Domenico Bresolin (Padua 1813 - Venice 1890), Riva d'Arno in Florence
Oil on canvas applied to cardboard 26 x 40 cm. Not signed.
INFO: to get more information
Publications:
D. Ri...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Praying in the Desert by Rudolf Ernst, 19th Century Oil on Panel
By Rudolf Ernst
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Rudolph Ernst’s Praying in the Desert is a masterful example of Orientalist art, showcasing the artist's profound ability to blend intricate detail with an atmosphere of serene spiri...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
View of Venice
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
AUGUSTE BOUVARD 1882-1956
Pseudo : Mard ALDINE
View of Venice with characters
Oil on canvas signed low right "Aldine"
Framed by Gault (Paris Fbg St-Honoré)
Dim canvas : 50 X 65 cm
D...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Sophie Holten (1858-1930), the Parthenon Frieze, London 1901
Located in Greding, DE
Painting based on the Peplos scene (Block V, eastern Parthenon frieze, ca. 447-433 BC) by the Danish painter Sophie Holten (1858 Skuldelev - 1930 Rosk...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Landscape By The Mountain Stream
By MOSNY Henry
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MOSNY Henry (19th Century)
Landscape by the mountain Stream
Oil on canvas signed below and dated 1882
Black and Golden wood Frame
Dim canvas : 73 X 92 cm
Dim Frame : 94 X 113 cm
MOS...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
La Rentrée du Troupeau en Plaine de Barbizon
Located in Atlanta, GA
Jean-Ferdinand Chaigneau was born in the shipping center of Bordeaux on March 6th, 1830. There he studied drawing under the academic painter Jean-Paul Alaux (1788-1858). In 1847...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
BARRIER Gustave - Painting Bunch of Flowers
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BARRIER Gustave (1871-1953)
Bunch of Flowers
Oil on card signed upper left
Old original frame re-gilded with gold leaves
Dim card : 56 X 46 cm
Dim fr...
Category
1930s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Maiden with hat
Located in Roma, RM
Luigi Preatoni (Novara 1845 - ?), Maiden with hat
Marble bust 66 x 43 x 36 cm signed (L Preatoni) on edge of dress.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Marble
Etienne Billet Portrait of William H. Fitch Oil on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Etienne Billet (French, 1821-1888), Portrait of William Harold Fitch, Oil on Canvas laid on Board, circa 1870, signed mid left, inscribed "William Harold Fitch / of Marseilles France...
Category
1870s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
In the diner
Located in Roma, RM
Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa (Barcelona 1854 - Rome 1938), In the Restaurant (1880)
Oil painting on panel 14 x 21 cm signed and dated on the right.
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Board
19th Century Painting Puppet theatre
By Paul Louis Martin des Amoignes
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MARTIN DES AMOIGNES, Paul Louis (1850-1925)
Puppet theatre on the village square
Oil on canvas signed low right
Dated 14th of July 1884
Old original f...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Young St. John the Baptist by Domenico Menconi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Masterfully carved with remarkable detail, a youthful Saint John the Baptist folds his hands in prayer in this stunning marble by the important Italian sculptor Domenico Menconi. The...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Marble
Composition of Roses With Lute and score
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GODCHAUX Emile (1860)
Big Composition of roses with
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 90 X 129 cm
Dim frame : 118 x 159 cm
GODCHAUX Emile (1860 - nc)
French School - 19th century - Born in 1860
Painter of genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes, marines, flowers, still lives. He sold his paintings on the public place, and sometimes in Lotteries. He is related to Alfred Godchaux...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Rochefort Harbour in early 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Richard FAXON (1816 - 1875)
Rochefort Harbour with Galleons
Oil on canvas signed low right
New golden frame
Size canvas 73 X 50 cm
Size frame 69 X 95 cm
FAXON Richard (1816-1875)
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Massimo Listri
Walhalla - Ratisbona
Located in New York, NY
Walhalla - Ratisbona 2003
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
39.5 x 47.5 inches
edition of 5
47.5 x 59 inches
edition of 5
71 x ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
C Print
Landscape of the Valley in French Normandy
By Eugène Jules Delahogue
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
DELAHOGUE Eugène Jules (1867-c1930)
" Landscape of the Valley"
Oil on canvas signed low right Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 91 X 150 cm Dim frame : 110 X 172 cm
DELAHOGUE Eu...
Category
1910s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Calligraphy 2
Located in Atlanta, GA
Born in 1969
1991, Graduated top of his class at Iranian Society of Calligraphy, Tehran
1993, Graduated from the Wood Industry & Paper-making, Tehran
Sol...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Miss Twisty: Back to the City - Mid-Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Miss Twisty is a story of a young girl who leaves the big city to spend time in the country. The book is filled with insight and humor. This work is a deftly rendered black-and-wh...
Category
1940s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Biblioteca di Michelozzo a S.Marco, Firenze
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca di Michelozzo a S.Marco, Firenze, 2009
C-print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso.
The photographer is based in Florence, and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Art
Materials
C Print
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17
century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramat...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Georgian Contemporary Art by Ramaz Chantladze - Untitled 12
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Ramaz Chantladze is a Georgian artist was born in 1960 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. He studied at Jacob Nikoladze School of Art. In 1979-1985 he studied at...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cleopatra Queen of Egypt 17
century Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Rome, IT
Amazing painting of Cleopatra oil on canvas with a gilt wood frame.
Attributed to Giuseppe Diamantini (Fossombrone 1621-Venice 1705)
The dramatic subje...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Nymphs and Cherubs in the Park
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Henri Paul ROLLAND (1891-1923)
Nymphs and cherubs in the Park
Oil on Wood panel signed low right
Golden frame
Size canvas : 70 X 81 cm
Size frame : 90 X 100 cm
ROLLAND Henri Paul(...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
The Musical Performance oil on panel by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Located in New York, NY
The Musical Performance by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
An italian genre painting showcasing two boys playing a trumpet and a guitar for their sist...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Board
19th century color lithograph scientific bird animal print hawk tree leaves egg
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sparrow Hawk" is an original color lithograph by an unknown American artist. It depicts a bird perching on the limb of a tree, its young poking out of th...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pair Italian Limestone Garden Sculptures with Cornucopia
Located in Rome, IT
Finely carved mythological subject in limestone with Cornucopia associated with the harvest, prosperity, or spiritual abundance. Excellent condition.
Measurements: Statue cm 160, ba...
Category
20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Limestone
French Contemporary Art by Pascal Plazanet - Provençale No. 20
Located in Paris, IDF
Rapidography & watercolor on canvas
Pascal Plazanet is a French artist born in 1963 who lives and works in Paris, France. For more 30 years, he constantly uses rapidograph pens in his artworks on paper or onto canvas. The rapidograph is a special pen with a capillary tubular tip in which flows a black pigment, an ancient drawing...
Category
1990s Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
Ballroom Dancers II - Charcoal, Figurative, Fabric, Movement, Human Form
By Trudy Good
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Ballroom Dancers II by Trudy Good. Original Charcoal & Pastel onto paper.
Trudy Good is a British figurative painter who has exhibited in numerous pla...
Category
Early 2000s Academic Art
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel
Edgard CUGNOTET - Painting 19th Century - Portrait of Two Children
By Edouard Ferdinand Ludovic Cugnotet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
CUGNOTET Edgard (19th Century)
Portrait of two Children
Oil on canvas signed low left and dated 1884
Frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 138 X 100 cm
Dim Frame : 162 X 122 cm
CUGNOTET Edgard Ferdinand Ludovic (19th Century)
French painter 19th Century born in Dijon
Figures, Portraits, Landscapes
He was taught by François Édouard PICOT (1786-1868) royal Academy of Anvers.
He exhibited at the Salon de Paris between 1868 and 1884.
Museum : Langres « the hurdy gurdy...
Category
1880s Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Children
s Book Cover - Mid-Century Blond Girl - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Female Illustrator Barbara Briggs Bradley was an in-demand illustrator in the 1950s. Merrill Publishers of their famous children's books hired Barbara Briggs Bradley to d...
Category
1950s Academic Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil
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