Fontainebleau School

noun

1. a group of artists, many of them Italian and Flemish, who worked on the decorations of the palace of Fontainebleau in the 16th century.

Example Sentences

In 1923, she won a scholarship to study at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France, but the French government retracted her admission after learning she was black.

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In April, 1923, she won admission to the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts, in France, but was rejected when the selection committee found out that she was black.

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The paintings in Ancy-le-Franc are the work of this same Fontainebleau school.

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Since the chill goddesses of the Fontainebleau school in the 16th century, the nude in French art had retained some measure of Gothic proportion� elongated torso, small high breasts � and a distinct aura of remoteness.

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Now the Fontainebleau school is gone.

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