Beaux Arts
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Beaux Arts, Beaux arts, or Beaux-Arts can 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
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.
See also
- Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe ( 1746), a treatise by Charles Batteux
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