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TIL of Académie de Saint-Luc a guild of painters and sculptors set up in Paris in 1391, it was dissolved in 1777 following such a successful exhibition that the Royal Academy issued an edict to abolish guilds, brotherhoods, and communities of arts and crafts.

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