Paris Visual Académie as First Prototype Profession

Visual academies were unique social formations in the ancien régime, so distinctive that they are best studied as prototype professions. Alone among academies, they were responsible for offering instruction. Alone among educational institutions, they linked liberal instruction to occupational practice. Alone among 'learned' occupations, they accommodated an irreducible manual component. The visual Académie in Paris in particular established literally the first 'graduate school' in any field of activity and admitted students on the basis of anonymously scored student competitions. Equivalent activities will not begin to emerge in medicine or law until the mid-19th century. Our historical case, in short, calls into question the received orthodoxy regarding the time and place of the first professionalism projects. Instead of focusing on 19th-century Britain, we are now considering mid-17th-century France and thereby preparing the way for a new start in the sociology of professions

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