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beaux arts

noun as in fine arts

noun as in visual arts

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There could be no better place to honor the art of dressmaking than the most prestigious art school: the Beaux Arts de Paris.

Outside, on the roof, the clock is flanked by more Beaux Arts touches: statues of Hercules, Mercury, and Minerva.

Drawing had been his first devotion, but he shifts to photography when he enters the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

But the French critic Louis de Fourcaud, writing in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, called it a masterpiece of characterization.

Two weeks ago, journalists were arrested trying to capture shots of the Beaux Arts mansion where the wedding will take place.

My brother, who was an architect, had highly distinguished himself at the cole des Beaux Arts under the teaching of Huyot.

We glued our noses to the window-glass of the art print shops around the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Extraordinary bays and alcoves, never before dreamed of by the Ecole des Beaux Arts gave light and shadow to long walls.

When a footman at the Caf des Beaux Arts wrenched the door open and let the cool air in, it was welcome.

The Palais des Beaux Arts, the home of the cole, was begun in 1820 and finished in 1863.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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