<Dd> "Académie Royale" redirects here; not to be confused with the Académie Royale des Beaux - Arts or the Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux - arts, both in Brussels . </Dd> <P> The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture), Paris, was the premier art institution in France in the eighteenth century . </P> <P> The Academy was founded in 1648, by King Louis XIV modelled on Italian examples, such as the Accademia di San Luca in Rome . 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 that artists of the St. Luke's guild did not have . </P> <P> According to the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, the academy was a result of "squabbles that arose between the Master Painters and Sculptors of Paris, and Painters protected by the King ." In response to harassment from the other painters, a group of royal painters formed a plan for an academy, and obtained a ruling from the Conseil d'Etat for it to be established . </P>

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