École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts stands in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés, across the Seine from the Louvre. This grande école belongs to Paris Sciences et Lettres University and trains artists in painting, sculpture, and digital media. Its campus occupies a historic site shaped by studios, galleries, and architectural fragments.
Charles Le Brun founded the institution in 1648 as the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. It joined the Académie d’architecture in 1817 and later became a public establishment under France’s Ministry of Culture. Studio practice meets art-history teaching, while conferences, seminars, and debates extend the work beyond the ateliers. Its public collection brings together paintings, sculptures, drawings, and historical books, including works by Poussin, Van Dyck, and Michelangelo.
Félix Duban reshaped the former Petits Augustins convent, incorporating fragments such as the portal of Château d’Anet. At the Palais des Études, frescoes surround the Hémicycle d’Honneur and Paul Delaroche’s mural of great artists. At the entrance, colossal carved heads of Pierre Paul Puget and Nicolas Poussin date from 1838.
- City
- Paris
- Content updated
Take this page with you
The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Paris. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.