French Academy in Rome

French Academy in Rome

The French Academy in Rome ( _fr. Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.

History

The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in 1666 by Louis XIV under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Charles Le Brun and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Academy was from the 17th to 19th centuries the culmination of study for select French artists who, having won the prestigious Prix de Rome (Rome Prize), were honored with a 3, 4 or 5-year scholarship (depending on the art discipline they followed) in the Eternal City for the purpose of the study of art and architecture. Such scholars were and are known as "pensionnaires de l'Académie" (Academy pensioners). One recipient of the scholarship in 17th century was Pierre Le Gros the Younger.

The Academy was housed in the Palazzo Capranica until 1737, and then in the Palazzo Mancini from 1737 to 1793. In 1803 Napoleon Bonaparte moved it to the Villa Medici, with the intention of perpetuating an institution once threatened by the French Revolution and, thus, of retaining for young French artists the opportunity to see and copy the masterpieces of the Antiquity or the Renaissance and send back to Paris their "envois de Rome", the results of the inspiration they had gained in Rome. These "envois" were annual works, sent to Paris to be judged, were a compulsory requirement for all the pensionaries.

At first, the villa and its gardens were in a sad state and had to be renovated to house the winners of the Prix de Rome. The competition was interrupted during the first World War, and Mussolini confiscated the villa in 1941, forcing the academy of France in Rome to withdraw to Nice then to Fontainebleau until 1945. The competition and prix de Rome are eliminated in 1968 by André Malraux (the last Grand Prix for architecture came to an end as early as 1967, the events of 1968 preventing its continuation) [Malraux had already once envisioned, unsuccessfully, the suppression of the Prix de Rome competition in 1962.] . The Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Institut de France then lost their guardianship of the villa Medici to the Ministry of the Culture and the State [The Institut de France reacted against this as early as 1975, while organizing each year the competition for the Académie des Beaux-Arts's Grand Prix of Architecture that still exists today. ] . From that time on, the boarders no longer belonged solely to the traditional disciplines (painting, sculpture, architecture, medal-engraving, precious-stone engraving, musical composition) but also to new or previously neglected artistic fields (art history, archaeology, literature, stagecraft, photography, movies, video, restoration, writing and even cookery). The artists are no longer recruited by a competition but by application, and their stays vary from six to eighteen months and even, more rarely, one or two years.

The building and its dependances were the object of a new rehabilitation and modernization campaign, in which the restoration of the facade over the gardens constitutes the most spectacular step. The works continued under the direction of the previous director, Richard Peduzzi, a painter and scénographe, and the Villa present exhibitions and shows created by its boarders.

List of directors

Many famous artists have been director of the Academy:
* 1666-1672 : Charles Errard
* 1673-1675 : Noël Coypel
* 1675-1684 : Charles Errard
* 1684-1699 : Matthieu de La Teullière
* 1699-1704 : René-Antoine Houasse
* 1704-1725 : Charles-François Poerson
* 1725-1737 : Nicolas Vleughels
* 1737-1738 : Pierre de L'Estache
* 1738-1751 : Jean-François de Troy
* 1751-1775 : Charles-Joseph Natoire
* 1775 : Noël Hallé
* 1775-1781 : Joseph-Marie Vien
* 1781-1787 : Louis Jean François Lagrenée
* 1787-1792 : François-Guillaume Ménageot
* 1792-1807 : Joseph-Benoît Suvée
* 1807 : Pierre-Adrien Pâris
* 1807-1816 : Guillaume Guillon Lethière
* 1816-1823 : Charles Thévenin
* 1823-1828 : Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
* 1829-1834 : Horace Vernet
* 1835-1840 : Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
* 1841-1846 : Jean-Victor Schnetz
* 1847-1852 : Jean Alaux
* 1853-1866 : Jean-Victor Schnetz
* 1866-1867 : Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
* 1867-1873 : Ernest Hébert
* 1873-1878 : Jules Eugène Lenepveu
* 1879-1884 : Louis-Nicolas Cabat
* 1885-1890 : Ernest Hébert
* 1891-1904 : Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Eugène Guillaume
* 1905-1910 : Charles-Emile-Auguste Durand, aka. Carolus-Duran
* 1913-1921 : Albert Besnard
* 1921-1933 : Denys Puech
* 1933-1937 : Paul-Maximilien Landowski
* 1937-1960 : Jacques Ibert
* 1961-1977 : Comte Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, aka. Balthus
* 1977-1984 : Jean Leymarie
* 1985-1994 : Jean-Marie Drot
* 1994-1997 : Pierre-Jean Angremy, aka. Pierre-Jean Rémy
* 1997-2002 : Bruno Racine
* 2002-2008 : Richard Peduzzi
* Since 2008 : Frédéric Mitterrand

ee also

* American Academy in Rome
* British School at Rome
* Villa Massimo

Notes

External links

* http://www.villamedici.it/
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rome,+italy&hl=en&t=h&ie=UTF8&om=0&ll=41.908098,12.48247&spn=0.001828,0.005214| Google Map]


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