Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai

Timeline

1878

[OrgReg Founded] Created and funded by the Congrégation des Frères des Ecoles chrétiennes.

Created and funded by the Congrégation des Frères des Ecoles chrétiennes.

1756

[OrgReg Founded] Created in 1756 and opened in 1757 by the municipality of Tournai, The Academy of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts met a need to train a skilled workforce from an artistic point of view. For the royal and imperial manufactories of po...

Created in 1756 and opened in 1757 by the municipality of Tournai, The Academy of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts met a need to train a skilled workforce from an artistic point of view. For the royal and imperial manufactories of porcelain which had just been implanted there.