Imperial Academy of Arts - full tour!

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Imperial Academy of Arts - full tour!

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Have you ever wondered what one of the world's greatest art academies looks like inside?

You probably have if you clicked on this video.

So, hi, my name is Ksenia, I'm a fourth-year student at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg

and I've finally made a video for you of a full tour of all the academy's workshops.

At the end of each semester, we have a large examination exhibition of all the departments, so this is the perfect time to visit and see it all with your own eyes!

This is a truly unique university.

It's very old, with a rich history. Many great masters of the past have graduated from this academy, and to this day, it's considered a high standard in the art world.

The Academy is not a closed institution, but there is still very little video footage from there in the media space, especially on the English-speaking part of the Internet which means we can call this video one of the first detailed English-language reviews

So, as a proud and devoted student, I want to take this opportunity to guide you through the various workshops today and show you how students work from their first to their last years, show you all the wonderful things we have here, and simply give you mountains of inspiration." from the video introduction

Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg

Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 17

Tel. 323 3578

Bus: 7, 47, K129, K- 147

Tram: 10

Open: 11am- 6pm Wed- Sun

The Imperial Academy of Arts (abbreviated as IAH; in 1757-1763 - the Academy of the Three Most Noble Arts; from March 1917 until the abolition - the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts) - the historical Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the first and only state higher educational institution in pre-revolutionary Russia, engaged in the training of personnel in the field of fine arts.

Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg

"The Imperial Academy of Arts was established by order of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna by decree of the Governing Senate dated November 6 (17), 1757, which implemented the initiative of I. I. Shuvalov and M. V. Lomonosov to create an art school at Moscow University. Shuvalov ordered the project of the “Academy of the North” (“Académie du Nord”) for Moscow in Paris to the French neoclassical architect Jacques-Francois Blondel the Younger, but the project was not developed and from 1757 the first ten students began to study painting under the guidance of the Italian painter Pietro Rotari in St. Petersburg in Shuvalov's own house on Italianskaya street. In the reign of Empress Catherine II in 1764, the Academy of Arts was transformed into an independent institution with its own privileges and charter, which received a special building on the University Embankment - an outstanding architectural monument of Russian classicism (1764-1789; project - J.-B. Vallin-Delamot, construction - A. F. Kokorinova). Until the building was completed, training sessions in 1764-1778 were held in specially rented houses on the embankment of Vasilyevsky Island.

During the second half of the 18th - the first half of the 19th century, the Imperial Academy of Arts occupied a central place in the artistic life of Russia, playing a significant role in the training of new artistic personnel; in 1833, its branch was opened in Moscow - the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. At the same time, conservative tendencies with a focus on official academism emerged at the Academy of Arts, which became predominant by the middle of the 19th century, which led in 1863 to the so-called "rebellion of the fourteen" - a public performance by a group of academic graduates, who later formed the basis of the association of the Wanderers. During the reform of 1893, the Imperial Academy of Arts received a new charter, according to which it was divided into two institutions: the Imperial Academy (Academic Assembly), which performed public functions, and an educational institution - the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, to which a number of major masters of the late 19th century were involved. After the revolution of 1917, the Academy of Arts actually stopped working and was abolished by a decree of the government of the RSFSR of April 13, 1918; after a series of transformations in the building of the Academy of Arts in 1932, the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (the modern St. Petersburg Academy of Arts named after Ilya Repin) was established..." from the article: Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg

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