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"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness." - Michelangelo Buonarotti
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The Paris Program Studio - Studio Escalier, Montmartre
Located on a tiny street in Montmartre (18ème arrondissement), our Paris Program Studio sits in a quiet residential section
of a quartier world-renowned for its artistic heritage. [Metro: Abbesses - M12].
The studio is available to students during school hours only, Monday - Friday.
(For exact daily schedules, see individual Paris program application PDFs, on the
HOW to APPLY page).
It offers approximately 450 sq ft (42m2) of active studio space, with a 14-foot ceiling (4.25 meters), and one entire wall
of north light. There is ample space for up to 10 students to work, plus the instructors.
The studio is well-heated and insulated.
High-quality easels, chairs, tall stools, drawing boards and folding stools are provided
for classroom use.
The Paris Program Studio is currently available for drawing instruction only. No cameras, mirrors, devices, electronics,
audio or video recorders of any kind are allowed in the studio at any time.
The Paris Program Studio is a private and historic faculty residence, and is not open to the general public.
Our Paris address was the first Montmartre atelier of
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec where he first met
Suzanne Valadon.
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The Intensive Course Studio - Les Escaliers, Argenton-Chateau
Our Summer and Autumn Intensive Courses are held at Les Escaliers, the studio-residence of Timothy Stotz and Nicole Michelle Tully,
in Argenton-Chateau, France (Poitou-Charentes - 79).
The Intensive Course Studio is available to students Sunday to Thursday, during school hours only (Su - Th, 9am - 6pm).
The Intensive Course curriculum takes Fridays and Saturdays as its weekend.
The course studio in Argenton-Chateau offers an approximately 900 sq ft (85m2) northlight studio on the third floor (40 steps to walk up).
There is ample room for twelve students to work, plus the instructors.
The Intensive Course studio offers hot-water brush sinks, a small study lounge and reading room, a coffee break area, racks and shelves
for individual supply storage,
and a full bathroom.
The studio is well-ventilated, heated and insulated, and its ceiling peaks at 19 feet (6 metres).
High-quality easels, chairs, tall stools, drawing boards and tabourets will be provided for drawing and painting in the classroom
only, and a small studio fee will cover the cost of providing non-toxic solvents and medium.
No cameras, mirrors, devices, electronics, audio or video recorders of any kind are allowed in the studio at any time.
Les Escaliers is a private and historic faculty residence, and is not open to the general public.
The property was the childhood home and residence of 19th c. sénateur
Camille Jouffrault
and his son député de Deux-Sêvres
André Jouffrault.
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Special Programs in Argenton-Chateau
Special 4-week programs meet occasionally in parallel to our Intensive Courses. They
hold their daily work-sessions at the spacious Salle des Fetes in Argenton Chateau, or at
the historic 19th c property called Les Sylvains.
Built in 1900, the Salle des Fetes is a 4500 sq ft (420 m2) facility, featuring a 1500 sq ft northlight painting studio,
its own kitchen, bathrooms and sinks. It has been used as both an instructional space and
a public exhibition space for student and faculty works.
Built in 1861 as an hotel particulier for the local notaire,
Les Sylvains ("The Fauns") is an 8000 sq ft (750 m2) facility in the center of Argenton-Chateau.
It offers a 600 sq. ft north-light art studio, multiple furnished 2BR apartments for student housing,
a 1024K wireless DSL network (for student use only), and laundry facilities. It offers a private,
quarter-acre formal garden for official functions and plein-air performances.
The performance spaces and group studio at Les Sylvains are available to residents Monday to Friday, during school hours only (9am - 6pm).
Les Sylvains is wholly owned and operated by Studio Escalier, and is not open to the general public.
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Museums and Museum Visits
Our Paris drawing programs (October to April only) always take time to visit and interact with Paris museums, and studio coursework often
focuses on the subject matter of current exhibitions.
Links to current and upcoming drawing exhibitions in Paris can be found on the
Drawing Programs page.
During each Intensive Course (Summer and Autumn only) in Argenton-Chateau (79),
we encourage the organization of at least one extra-curricular trip to a fine art museum nearby, or in Paris.
There are a variety of regional museums with excellent collections near Argenton-Chateau,
for single day-trips or for our "studio weekends" (Friday/Saturday).
Group reservations of 10 or more can benefit from a 30% discount on train fares to Paris from Angers
(as little as 60 euros roundtrip, per person).
The costs of museum trips and admissions are typically NOT included in the price of tuition.
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Selected Museums in Paris
Musee du Louvre
Contains one of the most important collections of art in the world, including European drawings, paintings and sculptures (1100 to 1848); Near Eastern, Oriental, Egyptian, Greek,
Etruscan and Roman antiquities, and objets d'art from the last 2000 years.
Musee d'Orsay
The collection was formed from mainly three sources:
- from the Louvre museum, for artists born after 1820 or coming to the fore during the Second Republic;
- from the Musée du Jeu de Paume, which since 1947 had been devoted to Impressionism;
- from the National Museum of Modern Art, which only kept works of artists born after 1870.
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900 (stone, glass and steel construction),
it now hosts major national temporary exhibitions organised by the Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Association
Francaise d'Action Artistique (AFAA) and the Delegation des Arts Plastiques (DAP).
Petit Palais - Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
The Petit Palais collections present a rich and varied body of art, including: a fine collection
of classical Greek, Etruscan and Roman art; the Cabal collection of Eastern Christian art; the Dutuit Collection
of medieval and Renaissance paintings and objets d'art; the Tuck Collection of 18th century furniture; the City of Paris
collection of paintings and sculpture from the 17th to the early 20th c; a massive archive of drawings, engravings, graphic arts,
documents and photographs from these same periods.
Musee Maillol
The museum was established in 1995 by Dina Vierny, model for sculptor Aristide Maillol, and operated by the Fondation Dina Vierny.
It presents both the work of Maillol (drawings, engravings, paintings, sculptures, decorative art, original plaster and terracotta)
and Vierny's large collection of Modern art (Rodin, Gauguin, Cezanne, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Valadon, Dufy, Bonnard, Odilon Redon,
Duchamp and more.) The Musee Maillol also welcomes traveling exhibitions of exceptional quality and interest to
artists ("Tresors de Medicis", "Pompeii", etc).
Musee Jacquemart-André
is the most extraordinary private collection of art in France, rivalling the quality of the Louvre.
It features some of the finest examples of Italian primitive and 18th c. art in France, including paintings,
murals, sculpture, furniture and decorative arts.
(Perugino, Bellini, Verrocchio, Della Robbia, Tiepolo, Vigee-Lebrun, Chardin, Boucher, J.L. David, etc)
ENSBA - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris inherited part of the collections of the Academie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture (founded 1648),
which were extremely varied in nature. They included the archives and inventories of the Academie Royale, engravings
of a number of works painted for admission to it, books and drawings presented to the Academies or projects submitted for their approval,
models collected for teaching purposes, works which had won the annual Prix de Rome or the various monthly competitions, assorted objects,
and so on.
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Selected Regional Museums (including travel times from Argenton-Chateau)
Musee des Beaux Arts - Nantes (1.5 hrs)
Italian, Flemish and French schools; Modern and Contemporary art.
Musee des Beaux Arts - La Rochelle (1.5 hrs)
The Cathedral of La Rochelle also features major works by Bouguereau, including his The Flagellation of Christ, and Scenes from the Life of the Virgin.
Musee Jules Desbois - Parçay les Pins (1 hr)
Jules Desbois (1851-1935), a friend and colleague of Rodin and Camille Claudel, was one of the finest sculptors of his time.
More than 100 drawings, maquettes and sculptures on display in the place of his birth.
Musee des Beaux Arts - Angers (1 hr)
More than 500 drawings, paintings and sculptures on display in a majestically renovated 17th c. building.
Musee David d'Angers
(1 hr)
aka Pierre-Jean David (1788-1856) French sculptor, student of Jacques-Louis David.
Chateau de Oiron - Thouars
(30 min)
A massive 16th century chateau, featuring a remarkably intact French Renaissance decorative and fresco cycle, based on The Iliad
(Ecole de Fontainebleau). It now also houses
an internationally ranked collection of contemporary art.
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