Académie des Beaux-Arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (lit. 'Academy of Fine Arts') is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect.

Background
The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671).

Awards
Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including five dedicated prizes:
 * Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Choral Singing
 * Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation Prize for Music
 * Pierre Cardin Prize for Design
 * François-Victor Noury Prize
 * Fondation Pierre Gianadda Prize

Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in libretto or music composition.

Presidents

 * 1995: Serge Nigg
 * 1996: Arnaud d'Hauterives
 * 1997: Jean Cardot
 * 1998: Christian Langlois
 * 1999: Jean-Marie Granier
 * 2000: Marius Constant
 * 2001: Pierre Schoendoerffer
 * 2002: Pierre Carron
 * 2003: Gérard Lanvin (sculptor)
 * 2004: Roger Taillibert
 * 2005: Jean Prodromidès
 * 2006: François-Bernard Michel
 * 2007: Pierre Schoendoerffer (2nd term)
 * 2008: Yves Millecamps
 * 2009: Antoine Poncet
 * 2010: Roger Taillibert (2nd term)
 * 2011: Laurent Petitgirard
 * 2012: François-Bernard Michel (2nd term)
 * 2013: Lucien Clergue
 * 2014: Claude Abeille
 * 2015: Aymeric Zublena
 * 2016: Érik Desmazières
 * 2017: Édith Canat de Chizy
 * 2018: Patrick de Carolis
 * 2019: Pierre Carron (2nd term)
 * 2020: Jean Anguera
 * 2021 Alain-Charles Perrot

Members
Constituted around the notion of multidisciplinarity, the Académie des Beaux-Arts brings together sixty-three members within nine artistic sections, sixteen foreign associate members and sixty-three corresponding members.

The members are grouped into nine sections:
 * Section I: Painting
 * Section II: Sculpture
 * Section III: Architecture
 * Section IV: Engraving
 * Section V: Musical composition
 * Section VI: Unattached (Free) members
 * Section VII: Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields (since 1985)
 * Section VIII: Photography (since 2005)
 * Section IX: Choreography (since 2018)

Current members: