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Fontainebleau School

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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.


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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.

From The Guardian

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

From The Guardian

Now the Fontainebleau school is gone.

From Time Magazine Archive

While studying medicine in Paris she met and married famed Architect Jacques Carlu, Director of the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the sterility of the Fontainebleau school may be inferred from the fact that when Marie de' Medici desired to have the walls of the Luxembourg royally decorated, she was compelled to have recourse to a foreigner, Rubens.

From Project Gutenberg