The Florence Academy of Art is an American
art school
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in Florence, in
Tuscany
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Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...
in central Italy. It was started by Daniel Graves, an American painter, in 1991. Teaching is in the traditional style of the
s. The school is a branch of the
International Academy of Fine Art, and is recognised as a
certificate
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programme by the
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
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. The school is not listed by the Italian ministry of education, the
Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, among the institutions authorised to award degrees in music, dance and the arts.
The Florence Academy of Art received an excellent review from Brian T. Allen in 2021.
A review in ''
The New York Times
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'' in 2003 of a show of works by students of the school at the Hirschl and Adler gallery in
Manhattan
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, New York, was not wholly negative, but spoke of " … inertly composed still lifes, laughable allegories and preciously romantic self-portraits ... glazed by decades of exposure to tobacco smoke".
References
Art schools in Italy
Education in Florence
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