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The Accademia di San Luca, founded in Rome in the late sixteenth century, was an association of artists who recognised in drawing the founding principle of unity of the three arts: painting, sculpture and architecture. Artists of any nationality were free to attend. In Paris, on the other hand, right from the beginning, academies were created from a State promoted company designed to train the craftsmen who would work on government contracts and large-scale production. The Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture was founded in 1648, and the Académie Royale d'Architecture in 1671. In …