Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú” (ENSABAP) is a fine arts school in Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

, Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

. It is located in Barrios Altos, a suburb of Lima District

Lima District

Lima is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is not where the inner city zone of Lima, the country's capital city, is located, San Isidro District being such area in Lima....

. It was founded in 1918, by President José Pardo y Barreda

José Pardo y Barreda

José Simón Pardo y Barreda was a Peruvian politician who twice occupied the Presidency of Peru, from 1904 to 1908 and 1915 to 1919....

 and Peruvian painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 Daniel Hernández

Daniel Hernández (painter)

Daniel Hernández Morillo was a Peruvian painter.Hernández was born in Hurpay, Huancavelica. He studied under Leonardo Barbieri, and in 1875, after attaining a scholarship from the Peruvian government, he travelled to Europe...

, who was its first director. It is located in a monumental building built in the early 1940s.

Administration

ENSABAP is governed by a General Assembly, who appoints the Technical Council, which runs the different departments that make up the teaching faculty.

The Technical Council consists of the General Director, Academy Director, Administration Director, Cultural Promotion Director, four Professors, one representative of graduates, and three student representatives.

Directors

• Daniel Hernández
  Daniel Hernández (painter)
  Daniel Hernández Morillo was a Peruvian painter.Hernández was born in Hurpay, Huancavelica. He studied under Leonardo Barbieri, and in 1875, after attaining a scholarship from the Peruvian government, he travelled to Europe...
  
  
• José Sabogal
  José Sabogal
  José Sabogal was a Peruvian painter and muralist who was "the most renowned early supporter" and thus a leader in the artistic indigenist movement of his country. As Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana M...
  
  
• Guzmán Suárez Vértiz
• Ricardo Grau
• Gonzáles Gamarra
• Juan Manuel Ugarte Eléspuru
• Teodoro Núñez Ureta
  Teodoro Núñez Ureta
  Dr. Teodoro Núñez Ureta was a Peruvian painter and a writer, noted for an original and distinctive style in Latin American art. His work often celebrated the life of the simple people of the Andes and the countryside, as distinct from a Spanish colonial legacy which had tended to ignore such...
  
  
• José Bracamonte Vera
• Alberto Dávila
  Alberto Davila
  Albert "Alberto" Dávila is a Mexican-American boxer who boxed during the 1970s and 1980s in the bantamweight division. During parts of 1983 and 1984, he held the World Boxing Council championship. Dávila lost world bantamweight championships matches three times, and temporarily left the sport...
  
  
• Carlos Aitor Castillo
• Miguel Baca Rossi
• Alberto Tello Montalvo
• Leslie Lee Crosby (2005–present)

External links

• Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes website