Daniel Graves founded The Florence Academy of Art in with a handful of students in a small studio in the gardens of a Florentine palace. He chose Florence to surround them with some of the greatest artwork in history. Today, the school is housed in a 35, square foot former customs house, just outside the city center, a short walk from the Arno River and the monuments of Florence. The antique structure, with its soaring ceilings and abundant natural light, has been transformed into a campus for realism: 30 north lit classrooms, a gallery, library, cafe, private studios for faculty and apartments for visiting artists.
I am connected to a tradition that never ever stopped. Students who apply to The Florence Academy of Art seek the language of Rembrandt, Velasquez, Titian and Sargent, and the tools to convey their ideas with confidence through the oil or clay mediums.
A common visual aesthetic draws them to the classical world and its renaissance in Florence to build an artistic vocabulary where beauty and humanity are intrinsic to art.
Introducing a cohort of accomplished graduates from our full-time painting and sculpting programs, the Graduate in Residence program at the Florence Academy of Art [β¦]. I wanted to capture a private moment and I looked to Vermeer , with his intimate explorations of light, movement, and color, most especially [β¦].
A room, the studio, sunlight light hitting a door, that falls in a specific way for just a few [β¦]. As we have chosen to dedicate Fall to the subject of Sculpture, we are particularly excited to bring to you this video, with its exploration of the beauty and complexity of casting sculpture in bronze, and the rebirth [β¦]. Thor Larsen , Principal Instructor and graduate of The Florence Academy of Art , has recently been commissioned to create a large-scale public sculpture depicting well-known and beloved characters from the Danish comedy film series [β¦].
