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The Prix de Rome ( pronounced [pʁi də ʁɔm]) or Grand Prix de Rome [1] was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Claude Debussy. Prix de Rome, any of a group of scholarships awarded by the French government between 1663 and 1968 to enable young French artists to study in Rome. It was so named because the students who won the grand, or first, prize in each artistic category went to study at the Académie de France in Rome.
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As the winner of the Prix de Rome, Ingres was expected to send work to Paris to demonstrate his progress; he was determined to excel in his contributions. Instead of merely sending back an academic male nude, his Oedipus and the Sphinx (1808) transformed that exercise into a history painting, the genre most celebrated by the Academy. Ingres ...
- French
- August 29, 1780
- Montauban, France
- January 14, 1867
In 1800 and 1801, he competed for the Prix de Rome, the highest prize of the Academy, which entitled the winner to four years of residence at the French Academy in Rome. He came in second in his first attempt, but in 1801 he took the top prize with The Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles. The figures of the envoys, in the right of ...
Due to the financial woes of the French government in the first years of the nineteenth century, Ingres’s Prix de Rome—which he won in 1801—was delayed until 1806. Two years later, Ingres sent to the École three compositions—intended to demonstrate his artistic growth while studying at the French Academy in Rome.
Its significance was underscored by the establishment of the Prix de Rome in 1674, an award given to the most promising painters, sculptors, and (after 1720) architects, for a period of three to five years of study in Rome.
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Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, b. Aug. 29, 1780, d. Jan. 14, 1867, learned drawing from his sculptor father before attending the Academy of Art in Toulouse from 1791. In 1797 he entered Jacques Louis David's studio in Paris. He won the Prix de Rome in 1801, but lack of government funds prevented him from going to Italy until 1806.
