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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.
Founded in 1666, the French Academy in Rome has played a decisive role ever since on the Roman and European cultural scenes. Find out more Sponsorship & private events
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.
The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French State, [citation needed] has housed the French Academy in Rome since 1803. A musical evocation of its garden fountains features in Ottorino Respighi's Fountains of Rome.
Villa Medici, also known as the French Academy in Rome (Académie de France à Rome in French), is a stunning mannerist palace that dates back to the Italian High Renaissance. The Palace of Villa Medici, which today hosts the French Academy in Rome, is located near Trinita’ dei Monti Church, on the Pincio Hill.
THE. FRENCH. ACADEMY. IN ROME. BY THEODORE. Illustrated. BOLTON. by the Author. it has passed through many. ALTHOUGH vicissitudes since its foundation in 1068, and has sometimes been suspended, the French Academy of Art in Rome has helped develop many of the most eminent French artists. The reasons are not far to seek.
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Founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, the French Academy in Rome is a French establishment located, since 1803, in the Villa Medici, a 16th-century villa surrounded by a seventeen-acre park, on Mount Pincio, in the heart of Rome.
