In Europe, over the same period, the idea of art acquired its modern sense, beginning in the mid-seventeenth century with the founding of the Royal Academy in Paris in 1648 and the professionalization of fine art under the control of the state. Art was expected to uphold public morality by depicting edifying moments from history and mythology. The nineteenth-century romantic reaction against the academy and the classical ideal brought about a reevaluation of emotion as against reason, and therefore of the primitive. Ornament became more respectable; the possibility that primitive arts were really art, or art of a sort, acquired plausibility. The constituent categories of the idea of art are found in our discursive categories but are also concretely institutionalized. Objects of each kind are normally housed in museums specializing in them and supported by the corresponding specialized journals and professional associations.