who founded the royal academy of painting and sculpture in france
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Academy was founded in 1648, by King Louis XIV[1] modelled on Italian examples, such as the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Paris already had the Académie de Saint-Luc, which was a city artist guild like any other Guild of Saint Luke. The purpose of this academy was to professionalize the artists working for the French court and give them a stamp of approval that artists of the St. Luke's guild did not have.