Beaux Arts
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| - | '''Beaux Arts''', '''Beaux arts''', or '''Beaux-Arts''' can refer to: | + | '''Beaux Arts''', '''Beaux arts''', or '''Beaux-Arts''' is a French term corresponding to '''[[fine arts]]''' in English. Capitalized, it may refer to: |
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| It is also the title of a [[Musée des Beaux Arts (poem)|poem]] by [[W. H. Auden]]. | It is also the title of a [[Musée des Beaux Arts (poem)|poem]] by [[W. H. Auden]]. | ||
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| + | *''[[Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe]]'' ( [[1746]]), a treatise by [[Charles Batteux]] | ||
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Beaux Arts, Beaux arts, or Beaux-Arts is a French term corresponding to fine arts in English. Capitalized, it may refer to:
- Beaux-Arts architecture, an architectural style
- Fine art, a style of painting popular at the turn of the 19th and 20th century
- École des Beaux-Arts, several art schools in France
- Académie des beaux-arts, a French learned society
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Musée des beaux-arts
Musée des beaux-arts is the French name for "Museum of Fine Arts" - there are examples at Rouen, Grenoble, Dijon, Chambéry, Béziers, Bordeaux, Tournai, Caen, Reims, Valenciennes, Besançon, Nancy, Brussels, Louviers, La Rochelle, Nantes, Marseilles, Paris, Poitiers, Montréal, Québec City, Ottawa, Boston.
It is also the title of a poem by W. H. Auden.
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See also
- Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe ( 1746), a treatise by Charles Batteux
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