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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- scholarship
- Named after
- French Academy in Rome
- Country
- France
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- eligible recipient
- architect
- inception
- 1663-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1968-01-01
- Commons category
- Prix de Rome
- native label
- Prix de Rome
- conferred by
- Institut de France
- category for recipients of this award
- Category:Prix de Rome winners
- topic's main category
- Category:Prix de Rome
- start time
- 1663-00-00
- awarded for type of work
- architecture
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Encyclopedic overview
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]) or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, 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. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Prix de Rome” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.