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Art scholarship awarded by the French government from 1663 to 1968. Established by Louis XIV and Charles Le Brun, it enabled young French painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and musicians to study in Rome. Grand-prize winners in each artistic category studied at the Acadmie de France in Rome for four years. Many of the greatest French artists and musicians of past centuries were prizewinners, including Jean-Honor Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, Hector Berlioz, and Claude Debussy. The competitions were discontinued in 1968 following the student riots in Paris, but the prize name was subsequently adopted by various groups for their own competitions.

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Term applied to the premier student prize awarded by the successive state-sponsored academies in Paris. The successful painter, sculptor or architect was able to study at the Acad?mie de France in Rome for three to five years. The Prix de Rome originated in two competitions for drawing held in 1663 at the Acad?mie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture to stimulate rivalry between pupils and thereby invigorate the Acad?mie's ailing teaching system. In 1664 Jean-Baptiste Colbert (see COLBERT, (1)) overhauled the Acad?mie's statutes. Article XXIV stipulated that an annual prize was to be awarded for representations of 'the heroic actions of the King': the initial 'Prix Royal' was won by Pierre Mosnier with Jason Capturing the Golden Fleece (Paris, Ecole N. Sup. B.-A.), in which Louis XIV is shown as Jason.

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Composition prize established in 1803 by the Institut de France, awarded annually up to 1968. It involved a period of study in Rome; winners have included Berlioz, Gounod, Bizet, Massenet and Debussy.


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Prix de Rome, Grand (gräN prē də rôm), prize awarded annually by the French government, through competitive examination, to students of the fine arts. It entitles them to four years' study at the Académie de France à Rome. The prize is open to all French painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and musicians between the ages of 15 and 30 who have completed required work at the École des Beaux-Arts or elsewhere. It was instituted by Louis XIV in 1666 for the purpose of enabling talented artists to complete their education by study of classical art in Rome.

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This article is about the French government prize. For similarly named prizes aimed at other countries' nationals, see Prix de Rome (disambiguation).
Palazzo Mancini, Rome, the seat of the Académie since 1725. Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1752.
The Villa Medici as it looks today.

The Prix de Rome (pronounced: [pʁi də ʁɔm]) was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture), was open to their students. From 1666, the award winner could win a stay of three to five years at the Palazzo Mancini in Rome at the expense of the King of France. In 1720, the Académie Royale d’Architecture began a prize in architecture. Six painters, four sculptors, and two architects[1] would be sent to the French Academy in Rome founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert from 1666.

Expanded after 140 years into five categories, the contest started in 1663 as two categories: painting and sculpture. Architecture was added in 1720. In 1803, music was added, and after 1804 there was a prix for engraving as well. The primary winner took the "First Grand Prize" (called the agréé)[2] and the "Second Prizes" were awarded to the runners-up.

In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte moved the French Academy in Rome to the Villa Medici with the intention of preserving an institution once threatened by the French Revolution. At first, the villa and its gardens were in a sad state, and they had to be renovated in order to house the winners of the Prix de Rome. In this way, he hoped to retain for young French artists the opportunity to see and copy the masterpieces of antiquity and the Renaissance. Well-known recipients of the Prix de Rome included the architect Tony Garnier, who, instead of concentrating his studies on the ancient ruins, used his time at the Academy (between 1899 and 1904) principally to develop his ideas for the development of a modern industrial city (Une Cité Industrielle, published in 1918), a precursor of later modernist urban and architectural ideas of twentieth century architects such as Le Corbusier.

Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Ernest Chausson, and Maurice Ravel attempted the Prix de Rome, but did not gain recognition. Jacques-Louis David, having failed three years in a row, considered suicide. Ravel tried a total of five times to win the prize, and the last failed attempt in 1905 was so controversial that it led to a complete reorganization of the administration at the Paris Conservatory.

The Prix de Rome was suppressed in 1968 by André Malraux, who was Minister of Culture at the time. Since then, a number of contests have been created, and the academies, together with the Institut de France, were merged by the State and the Minister of Culture. Selected residents now have an opportunity for study during an 18-month (sometimes 2-year) stay at The Academy of France in Rome, which is accommodated in the Villa Medici.

The heyday of the Prix de Rome was during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.[3]

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Winners in the Architecture category

This is an incomplete list. From 1722 to 1786, a Grand Prix de Rome in architecture was awarded by the Académie d'architecture - its first holder was Jean-Michel Chevotet.[4]

Winners in the Painting category

Winners in the Sculpture category

Winners in the Engraving category

The engravery prize was created in 1804 and suppressed in 1968 by André Malraux, the minister of Culture.

Winners in the Musical Composition category

After 1968, the Prix de Rome changed formats and the competition was no longer organised.

Netherlands

For a short while the Prix de Rome was also awarded to young artists during the Kingdom of Holland (today roughly Belgium & the Netherlands) under Lodewijk Napoleon. During the years 1807-1810 prize winners were sent to Paris and onwards to Rome for study. In 1817 King Willem I restarted the prize; though it took until 1823 before the new "Royal Academies" of Amsterdam and Antwerp could organize the juries. Winners (1807-1810):[15]

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References

  1. ^ Lee, S. "Prix de Rome", Grove Dictionary of Art online
  2. ^ Clarke, Michael. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Oxford University Press, 2001
  3. ^ Lee, ibid
  4. ^ Perouse de Montclos, Jean–Marie, “Le Prix de Rome” Concours de l’Académie royale d’architecture au XVIIIe siècle, Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France, Paris: Berger-Levrault, Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1984.
  5. ^ A History of Western Architecture, David Watkin, 2005, Laurence King Publishing, ISBN 1-85669-459-3, p. 441
  6. ^ "Percier, Charles; and Fontaine, Pierre(-François-Léonard)" in The New Encyclopædia Britannica (15th edition, Chicago, 1991) 9:280:3a.
  7. ^ artnet.com: Resource Library: Durameau, Louis-Jacques retrieved 25 October 2009 (English)
  8. ^ The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature, Pierre Bourdieu, p. 215, ISBN 0-231-08287-8, 1993, Columbia University Press
  9. ^ 1911 Encyclopedia
  10. ^ The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-arts, Paris, 2005, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10918-0
  11. ^ The New International Year Book, Published 1966. Dodd, Mead and Co. P 86
  12. ^ (in Spanish) Biografia Visual Antonio Alice 1886 - 1943. Buenos Aires: Museo Roca - Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas. 2007. pp. 6. http://www.museoroca.gov.ar/articulos/bioalice.pdf. Retrieved 13 March 2010. 
  13. ^ Reno Evening Gazette, Monday,May 22, 1939>
  14. ^ "Jagger, Charles Sargeant". Grove Art Online. 2007. http://www.groveart.com/shared/views/article.html?from=search&section=art.992332&authstatuscode=202. Retrieved 2007-07-09. 
  15. ^ Prix de Rome winners in RKD database

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