The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (French: [akademi ʁwajal də pɛ̃tyʁ e də skyltyʁ]; English: "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution .

The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture) was established in 1648. It oversaw—and held a monopoly over—the arts in France until 1793.

The Académie Royale d'Architecture (French pronunciation: [akademi ʁwajal daʁʃitɛktyʁ]; English: "Royal Academy of Architecture") was a French learned society founded in 1671.

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (French: Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles [akademi ʁwajal de boz‿aʁ də bʁysɛl] (ArBA-EsA); Dutch: Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel [ˈkoːnɪŋkləkə ˌaːkaːˈdeːmi voːr ˈsxoːnə ˈkʏnstə (ɱ) vɑm ˈbrʏsəl]) is an art school in Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1711.

In France the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was founded in 1648 as a free society of members all entitled to the same rights and granted admission in unlimited numbers. Under the sponsorship of the powerful minister Jean …

Over the century and a half of its existence (1648–1793), the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture amassed a collection of more than 15,000 artworks (paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, casts, and medals).

École des Beaux-Arts, school of fine arts founded (as the Académie Royale d’Architecture) in Paris in 1671 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister of Louis XIV; it merged with the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (founded in 1648) in 1793.

At the suggestion of the composer Pierre Perrin and at the instigation of Colbert, the Académie royale de musique is founded. Jean-Baptiste Lully becomes its director in 1672. Its mission is to produce French-language entertainment for the court, to promote musical taste in the general public and to provide quality teaching.