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Origin and history

The École des beaux-arts de Toulouse found its origins in a school of drawing and painting created in 1680. In 1746, the Society of Fine Arts was founded by painters Antoine Rivalz and Guillaume Cammas, as well as lawyer Bernard Dupuy du Grez, author of a Treaty on Painting (1699). This initiative, supported by the municipality, gives rise to a free public school, first set up in Capitole, then on Lafayette Street. The institution was officially recognized in 1750 by Louis XV, who founded the Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of Toulouse, the first provincial academies of this type and alone, with Paris, to bear the title of "Royal Academy".

The Royal Academy, where Jean-Auguste-Dominique studied Ingres from 1791 to 1796, was dissolved in 1793 during the Revolution, but its teachers continued teaching voluntarily. In 1804, the school moved to a wing of the former Augustine convent (now the Augustine Museum), before becoming in 1827 the School of Fine Arts and Industrial Sciences, under the leadership of the Urban Vitry architect. In 1837, General Louis-François Lejeune, painter and pioneer of lithography, took over the leadership. The school was placed under ministerial supervision in 1883, becoming the National School of Fine Arts.

In 1892, part of the Augustine convent was destroyed in order to break through the street of Metz, forcing the school to move quai de la Daurade to the former Boyer-Fonfrède tobacco factory. In 1895, she received a monumental facade adorned with allegories (Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Engraving), which emerged from Pierre Esquié's Palace of Arts and Industrial Sciences. In the 20th century, architecture left school in 1969 for the Mirail district. From 1968 to 1987, the establishment houses the Scriptorium de Toulouse, a major workshop for the renewal of calligraphy and typography, led by André Vernette and Bernard Arin.

In 2011, as part of the reform of art schools, the school became a public institution for cultural cooperation under the name of the Institut supérieure des arts de Toulouse (isdaT). She then joined the Centre d'études supérieure de musique et de danse, forming today a multidisciplinary centre combining plastic arts, design, music and dance. The Ministry of Culture, together with the school in Nîmes, Occitanie, is now responsible for teaching.

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