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Opening Hours. Open from Monday to Sunday (closed on Tuesday) from 10am to 7.00pm. For more information: (+39) 06 67 61 200. Find out more. Residencies. 2023-2024 Fellows. The 16 Fellows for 2023-2024 began their twelve-month residency at Villa Medici in September 2023. Find out more. Cultural Events. Exhibitions. Events. Find out more.
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00187 Rome, Italy. The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici...
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Founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, the French Academy in Roma –...
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President. Sam Stourdzé (2020-present) Website. Official website. The French Academy in Rome ( French: Académie de France à Rome, pronounced [akademi də fʁɑ̃s a ʁɔm]) is an academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy .
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The founding of the French Academy in Rome in 1666 as a branch of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris signaled the seminal importance of the classical tradition in the Academy’s program of art education. Its significance was underscored by the establishment of the Prix de Rome in 1674, an award given to the most promising ...
Mar 8, 2017 · Art History Definition: Academy, French. ( noun) - The French Academy was founded in 1648 under King Louis XIV as the Académie Royale de peinture et de sculpture. In 1661, the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture operated under the thumb of Louis XIV's minister of finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), who personally selected Charles Le ...
In 1816, the French Academy introduced a Prix de Rome in paysage historique, historical landscape painting. The prize, awarded every four years, enabled its laureate to live and work at the Villa Medici in Rome, an opportunity conferred on promising French painters schooled in the academic canon.
