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Apr 11, 2024 · Base d’Antin – Online collections of the French Academy in Rome; Restorations; Digital ressources. The database of the “Envois de Rome” in painting and sculpture, 1804-1914 – INHA; Biographical dictionary of the French Academy in Rome’s Fellows; Library; Archives. Online Archive of the French Academy in Rome; Sponsorship and private ...
Apr 2, 2024 · Louis XIV style. Nicolas Poussin (born June 1594, Les Andelys, Normandy [France]—died November 19, 1665, Rome, Papal States [Italy]) was a French painter and draftsman who founded the French Classical tradition. He spent virtually all of his working life in Rome, where he specialized in history paintings—depicting scenes from the Bible ...
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5 days ago · Nevertheless, in 1884 Debussy won France's most prestigious musical award, the Prix de Rome, with his cantata L'enfant prodigue. The Prix carried with it a residence at the Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome, to further the winner's studies. Debussy was there from January 1885 to March 1887, with three or possibly four absences of several ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Jean-François de Troy (baptized January 27, 1679, Paris, France—died January 26, 1752, Rome, Papal States [Italy]) was a French Rococo painter known for his tableaux de mode, or scenes of the life of the French upper class and aristocracy, especially during the period of the regency—e.g., Hunt Breakfast (1737) and Luncheon with Oysters ...
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Apr 16, 2024 · After winning the Prix de Rome of the French Academy in 1774 (important in the history of French painting because it awarded a stay in Rome, where winners studied Italian paintings firsthand), he was in that city in 1775–81, and he returned there in 1784 to paint Oath of the Horatii.
Apr 9, 2024 · At the end of a selection procedure for which 713 applications were submitted, the jury for the competition for residents of the French Academy in Rome — Villa Medici selected 16 winners. This new class of residents, representing 6 artistic disciplines and 6 different nationalities, will be welcomed at the Villa Médicis from September 2 ...
Apr 15, 2024 · 34 Who was first a deputy acting in the name of Le Brun and later elected Principe himself of the French Academy in Rome. 35 Mahon, Studies in Seicento Art and Theory . 36 Nikolaus Pevsner, Academies of Art, Past and Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), 55.
