Florence Classical Arts Academy
One-Year Course
Florence, Italy
Course
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English, Russian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Florence Academy of Russian Art offers a one year course based in Florence, Italy, with an option to extend into the full three year programme. You’ll progress step by step from simple geometric figures to drawing and painting portraits, gaining a fundamental educational base in academic drawing and painting, classical techniques, figurative study and portraiture while immersed in historical Italian art and culture.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles as a portrait artist, studio painter, art instructor or illustrator, and work in galleries, on private commissions, in teaching, in conservation study or by continuing to advanced art programmes.
The Florence Academy of Russian Art offers you to take its One-Year Course, which can be extended then into the full Three-Year Course. During one academic year, you will go through a step by step program, which will take you from basic to complex. You will be starting by studying simple geometric figures and then finish the year by drawing and painting portraits. This course is a fundamental educational base for any artist who wants to master the skills of academic drawing and painting.
