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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BEAUX-ARTS

French, literally: fine arts.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BEAUX-ARTS

beaux-arts  [bəʊˈzɑː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BEAUX-ARTS

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Beaux-Arts is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BEAUX-ARTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Beaux arts

Beaux Arts, Beaux arts, or Beaux-Arts may refer to: ▪ Académie des Beaux-Arts, a French arts institution ▪ Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, a Belgian arts school ▪ Beaux-Arts architecture, an architectural style ▪ Beaux Arts Gallery, an important gallery of British modern art ▪ Beaux-Arts Institute of Design aka BAID, New York City based art and architecture school ▪ Beaux Arts Trio, a classical music chamber group ▪ Beaux Arts, Washington, a small town in the Seattle metropolitan area ▪ École des Beaux-Arts, several art schools in France ▪ Fine art, a style of painting popular at the turn of the 19th and 20th century ▪ Palais des Beaux Arts, a federal cultural venue in Brussels, Belgium. ▪ see also Category:Beaux-Arts buildings...

Definition of beaux-arts in the English dictionary

The definition of beaux-arts in the dictionary is relating to the classical decorative style, esp that of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BEAUX-ARTS


alcazar
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bazaar
bəˈzɑː
bazar
bəˈzɑː
bizarre
bɪˈzɑː
gazar
ɡəˈzɑː
hussar
hʊˈzɑː
huzzah
həˈzɑː
izar
ɪˈzɑː
kala-azar
ˌkɑːləəˈzɑː
superbazaar
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superbazar
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BEAUX-ARTS

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beaver

WORDS THAT END LIKE BEAUX-ARTS

arts
black arts
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graphic arts
hearts
in fits and starts
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lonely hearts
mixed martial arts
of many parts
parts
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Synonyms and antonyms of beaux-arts in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «beaux-arts» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BEAUX-ARTS

Find out the translation of beaux-arts to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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美术学院
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bellas artes
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beaux-arts
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Beaux - कला
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للفنون الجميلة
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Beaux-Arts
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beaux-কলা
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beaux-arts
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ボザール
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Beaux-Arts
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பியாக்ஸ்-கலை
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बीवर-कला
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Beaux-Arts
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Beaux-Arts
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Beaux - Arts
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Arte Frumoase
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Beaux-Arts
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Trends of use of beaux-arts

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BEAUX-ARTS»

The term «beaux-arts» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.427 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BEAUX-ARTS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about beaux-arts

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BEAUX-ARTS»

Discover the use of beaux-arts in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to beaux-arts and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Beaux-arts Architecture in New York: A Photographic Guide
Discusses the Beaux-Arts style in architecture, and shows and describes examples among the hotels, banks, apartment buildings, museums, offices, and monuments of Manhattan
‎1988
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Beaux arts New York
Handsome period photographs, informative text, and lively reminiscences tell the story of the glorious Gotham that spanned the years from 1880 to World War I.
David Lowe, PaineWebber Art Gallery, 1998
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Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts
By virtue of its scope, scale, and scholarship, this volume promises to become a classic in the fields of Chinese and Western architectural history.
Jeffrey W. Cody, Nancy Riva Shatzman Steinhardt, Tony Atkin, 2011
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Masterworks from the Musée Des Beaux-arts, Lille
Lille, 1968 “Au temps du roi soleil: les peintres de Louis XIV (1660—1715),” Palais des Beaux-Arts. Lille, 1970 “Cent chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée de Lille,” Musée des Beaux-Arts. Lille, 1974 “La Collection d'Alexandre Leleux,” Musée des ...
Lille (France). Musée des beaux-arts, 1992
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Always Something New to Discover: Menahem Pressler and the ...
In Always Something New to Discover, Pressler's biography, esthetics, pianism and dedication to music are gathered in texts enriched with oral history as generously shared by Pressler and his intimates.
Cynthia Wilson, 2011
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A World History of Architecture
Architectural teaching was reorganized during the French Revolution and again under Napoleon Bonaparte. By 1819, the Section d'Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux- Arts was well established, with its own faculty and with quarters in a ...
Marian Moffett, Michael W. Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse, 2003
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History of Architectural Theory:
21. Nineteenth.century. France. and. the. Ecole. des. Beaux.Arts. Since Emil Kaufmann's work on Ledoux and Boullee' it has heen customary to date the heginnings of modern architecture from the so.called 'Revolutionary architects' of France.
Hanno-Walter Kruft, 1994
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Musée des Beaux Arts: Shmoop Poetry Guide
Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert poetry-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is at night).This Shmoop Poetry Guide offers fresh analysis, a line-by-line close reading of the ...
Shmoop, 2010
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Music and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth ...
Paris, 14 July 1780) From: Les beaux-arts reduits a un meme principe (Paris 1746), Preface; Table of Contents; pts I, n and in In 1730 Batteux settled in Paris and later was appointed professor of Greek and Latin philosophy at the College ...
Peter le Huray, James Day, 1988
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American Architecture: 1860-1976
Ecole des Beaux-Arts In the 1880s the two preceding decades, with their strongly held convictions about decoration, structure, and morality, came to be regarded as an age of architectural darkness. What emerged in this decade, for all its ...
Marcus Whiffen, Frederick Koeper, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BEAUX-ARTS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term beaux-arts is used in the context of the following news items.
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Morning Links: DIY Museum Edition
Nicolas Bourriaud, director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was fired last Wednesday by French minister of culture ... «ARTnews, Jul 15»
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Rema Hort Mann Foundation Awards Inaugural Artist Community …
Hili Perlson reports at Artnet that Nicolas Bourriaud has been dismissed as director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris ... «Artforum, Jul 15»
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Cologne Fine Art Fair Adds New Contemporary Art Fair
Hili Perlson reports at Artnet that Nicolas Bourriaud has been dismissed as director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris ... «Artforum, Jul 15»
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Dynamite To Stake Claim To New York, As DC Leaves (UPDATE)
Named for the 1902 skyscraper whose Beaux-Arts three-facade design presides over the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway, the ... «Bleeding Cool News, Jul 15»
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Studio Museum in Harlem Announces Expansion
Hili Perlson reports at Artnet that Nicolas Bourriaud has been dismissed as director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris ... «Artforum, Jul 15»
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Andrew Levitas Wants You To Play In His Metal Playground
The shift proved fruitful, and in 2008 he became apart of an elite few who were accepted to the prestigious Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, ... «Miami New Times, Jul 15»
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Nicolas Bourriaud Fired From the École Nationale Supérieure des …
Hili Perlson reports at Artnet that Nicolas Bourriaud has been dismissed as director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris ... «Artforum, Jul 15»
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No Longer Empty – From Courthouse to Art Gallery and Beyond
It's important to note that this is the same Beaux-Arts-style courthouse that once boasted granite floors, lavish stairways and bronze doors. «Highbrow Magazine, Jul 15»
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Il Ministro della Cultura francese Fleur Pellerin licenzia Nicolas …
Il Ministro della Cultura francese Fleur Pellerin licenzia Nicolas Bourriaud. L'Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts non ha più un direttore. E scatta il ... «Artribune, Jul 15»
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Two downtown office buildings sell as a package for $202M
Westbrook, which also owns D.C.'s St. Regis Hotel, paid $50 million for the Beaux-Arts Colorado Building, or roughly $393 per square foot, and ... «Washington Business Journal, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Beaux-Arts [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/beaux-arts>. May 2024 ».
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